Improving Hospitality Industry Talents in Macau
A Project Proposal - Improving Hospitality Industry Talents in Macau
Introduction
With the development of the Macau economy, the local market requires more labor to satisfy its demand. However, Macau’s human resource distribution is not balanced especially for local professionals in the hospitality industry. Although the unemployment rate in Macau has been around 2% during recent years, improving the whole professional level is the most important thing for the long term. (Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, 2013) According to statistics, there is around 130 thousand non-local people work in Macau in 2013. Since the booming development of the hospitality industry, there is no doubt that Macau needs more qualified personnel in the future. Career Times has reports that “As business booms, the shortage of qualified personnel is becoming more acute and employers are starting to worry.” (2006) Therefore, it is essential that Macau cultivates more hospitality industry talents in order to have a stable and sustainable development. This project proposal presents 3 recommendations to improve hospitality industry talents in Macau.
Problem Statement
In the ideal situation, Macau would have an effective and efficient educational system, cultivating sufficient professional talents to develop and maintain this city. In recent years, with the flourishing hospitality industry, Macau needs more and more professional talents to manage the whole market. However, due to the defective educational system, the younger generations are not qualified professional.
But in order to increase economic efficiency, the government has to hire more and more non-local people to meet the requirement. It is obvious that this situation threatens local people’s opportunity, livelihood and their developments even it will sharpen contradiction
According to Macau daily news (2011), hotel and restaurant industries still have 5000 job vacancies. Imbalance has occurred in the
Introduction
With the development of the Macau economy, the local market requires more labor to satisfy its demand. However, Macau’s human resource distribution is not balanced especially for local professionals in the hospitality industry. Although the unemployment rate in Macau has been around 2% during recent years, improving the whole professional level is the most important thing for the long term. (Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, 2013) According to statistics, there is around 130 thousand non-local people work in Macau in 2013. Since the booming development of the hospitality industry, there is no doubt that Macau needs more qualified personnel in the future. Career Times has reports that “As business booms, the shortage of qualified personnel is becoming more acute and employers are starting to worry.” (2006) Therefore, it is essential that Macau cultivates more hospitality industry talents in order to have a stable and sustainable development. This project proposal presents 3 recommendations to improve hospitality industry talents in Macau.
Problem Statement
In the ideal situation, Macau would have an effective and efficient educational system, cultivating sufficient professional talents to develop and maintain this city. In recent years, with the flourishing hospitality industry, Macau needs more and more professional talents to manage the whole market. However, due to the defective educational system, the younger generations are not qualified professional.
But in order to increase economic efficiency, the government has to hire more and more non-local people to meet the requirement. It is obvious that this situation threatens local people’s opportunity, livelihood and their developments even it will sharpen contradiction
According to Macau daily news (2011), hotel and restaurant industries still have 5000 job vacancies. Imbalance has occurred in the
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