Skills shortage in tourism
Personnel is missing – tourism association calls for “recruitment offensive”
The lack of staff has long since reached the travel industry. Before the Bundestag election, the tourism association places demands on politics in order to gain specialists from abroad.
In view of the shortage of skilled workers in the industry, the German Tourism Association (DTV) speaks for an “recruitment offensive”. “The specialist immigration law has to be simplified in order to facilitate the employment of foreign workers,” said the DTV. “A national recruitment offensive is intended to win specialists from home and abroad.”
A few weeks before the Bundestag election, the DTV makes further claims, among other things, bureaucracy should be broken down, working hours are to be designed more flexibly and visa procedures are simplified. “There are now more and more serious obstacles that endanger Germany’s tourism location,” warned DTV President Reinhard Meyer.
Germany tourism as an important economic factor
Federal politics must focus on Germany tourism from a margin. The tourism industry is a “leading economy of the 21st century” and should also be seen by politics as such, Meyer said.
A competitive tourism industry creates attractive jobs. According to the DTV, around 2.8 million workers recently worked in tourism. Germany tourism is an important economic factor with a direct gross value added of 123.8 billion euros.
dpa
Source: Stern
