With the summer season in full swing, the most qualified figures in hotels - chefs, maîtrees, high-level waiters and reception staff - are like doctors in Sardinia: they cannot be found .
Eight structures in southern Sardinia found themselves suspending the bar service in the pool or on the beach and limiting the services in the rooms due to the lack of staff, as reported by Fausto Mura , president of Federalberghi South Sardinia : "The hotel sector continues to suffer from lack of staff. Fortunately, there have not yet been cases of hotels that have not opened due to lack of staff but this risk, if we do not find solutions, will be increasingly concrete in the coming years ".
A common difficulty, from Pula to Chia . “We had some problems last year too”, says Valeria Gallia (Lantana Resort) . For Gallia, "good professional schools are insufficient for the training of new recruits who attend for passion in the sector. This year too we have made up for the lack of qualified personnel with foreign students".
For Nicola Palomba of Confindustria turismo, it is necessary to realize “that one of the difficulties is to find young people. Unfortunately, more and more people are not looking for a job ”. There are two proposals: “With the contribution of the Region - adds Palomba - we set up a tourism observatory to really know the market and we review the system of citizenship income and subsidies. All this would benefit the workers and the truly needy. In the same way - concludes the exponent of Confindustria - entrepreneurs must do their part ”.
(Unioneonline)
