Manpower in luxury hotels: Ban on untrained personnel on its way – Mozambique

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Manpower in luxury hotels: Ban on untrained personnel on its way – Mozambique

11:35 CAT | 18 Jun 2018

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The government may create a law that prohibits the owners of 4- and 5-star luxury hotels hiring employees without technical and professional training in hotel and tourism, Minister of Science Technology, Higher and Technical-Professional Education Jorge Nhambiu announced recently in Pemba.

“We will sit down with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to produce a joint law that prohibits the admission of unqualified employees in the hotel and tourism sector, specifically to 4- and 5-star hotels, to protect trainees from technical-professional schools particularly in the hotel and tourism sector, who are damaged by this lack of rules,” Nhambiu said.

His intention was formulated just as the first Hotel Hospitality and Tourism School, under the management of the Industrial Institute of Pemba, is expected to be inaugurated this year in the capital of the province.

The government of Cabo Delgado, which defined tourism as one of the pillars of development of its economy, defends the need for youth to take advantage of vocational schools in the area of tourism, joining training initiatives en masse.

Most of the 3,820 workers employed in the 386 hotels and similar facilities in the province have no training in the area they work in.

Meanwhile, the irregular distribution of hotels means the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism is challenged to mobilise and persuade economic operators to invest in districts such as Balama, Namuno, Ancuabe, Metuge, Meluco, Muidumbe and Quissanga, which currently have no capacity despite their potential to generate profits from large mining projects such as graphite.

Over the last five years, a total of 261,083 guests, both nationals and foreigners, have visited Cabo Delgado province.

Source: Notícias