94,000 Heads Needed To Manage Hospitality

With hospitality industry set to add 53,000 new rooms across 40 properties over the next five years, the industry needs about 94,000 fresh heads to manage these new hotels. Apart from the major metros - Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore - the big demand for hospitality manpower is slated to come from tier II cities like Pune, Jaipur, Goa, Hyderabad and Cochin. Tech city Bangalore will add over 7,700 rooms over the next five years. This is slated to increase its stock of human resources in the hospitality sector from 3,300-level to over 17,000 in the next five years, a jump of over 400 pct The pink city of Jaipur which adds over 2,700 rooms over the next five years, will need to over 4,700 heads more to manage the extra inventory. According to Mr Saurabh Gupta, head, Hospitality Executive Search, HVS International , the hospitality industry will start feeling the impact of manpower shortage from 2008 onwards when bulk of additional supply starts flowing in. Over 40,000 new rooms are set to enter the market between 2008 and 2010.

Source: The Economic Times New Delhi Edition