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The executive president of the Associação da Hotelaria de Portugal (AHP), Cristina Siza Vieira, considered this Wednesday that the sector is “in apnea”, after two years of a pandemic, facing challenges, such as the lack of manpower, but optimistic.

“I would say that we are in a state of apnea, we still have oxygen in our lungs, but we are still going through these very difficult times in apnea”, said the official, during an initiative by Jornal de Negócios, within the scope of the Portugal Inspirador / Side by Side Award with Companies, dedicated to tourism, in which the executive president (CEO) of the Torel Boutiques Collection, João Pedro Tavares, and the director of the Santander bank Miguel Belo de Carvalho also participated.

The head of the AHP underlined that the tourism sector, particularly the hotel industry, “is still very weak” from the last two years marked by the covid-19 pandemic and that the first quarter of this year, affected by the fifth wave of the pandemic, which hit Portugal in December, “it will be very unfortunate”.

However, the expectation is that from Easter onwards it can begin to recover and that there will already be greater international demand in the second half of this year. Even so, Cristina Siza Vieira considered that there are reasons to be “very optimistic”. “The country has everything to be able to assert itself, without any shyness, as a power in tourism”, she stressed.

“There are challenges, there are, but we have to know how to organize ourselves in order to respond to these challenges, in order to be able, in fact, to sustain our growth in tourism”, defended the official.

One of these challenges is related to the shortage of manpower that the sector faces, as pointed out by the administrator of the bank Santander Miguel Belo de Carvalho, noting that Portugal lost 140,000 workers directly or indirectly linked to the tourism industry and 90,000 directly linked to operators. Touristic.

Cristina Siza Vieira stressed that this is not a problem specific to Portugal, but to the western world, where, she said, it is no longer workers who have to adapt to companies, but the opposite, which requires greater flexibility to to attract and retain talent.

To tackle the problem, AHP has already had meetings with the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, Berta Nunes, in order to analyze the possibility of hiring professionals from those countries.

“There are pathetic myths here, when they say that we want to go get people from the CPLP [Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries] countries, because we will pay worse, this is not even legally possible, I am absolutely irritated by these statements”, admitted the official, adding that it will not be possible to satisfy the need for labor with internal resources alone.

Faced with this problem, the Torel hotel group began, in September, to make protocols with some embassies of countries “for which Portugal is normally attractive”, such as, for example, Morocco, explained João Pedro Tavares.

Font: https://eco.sapo.pt/2022/01/19/hotelaria-em-apneia-devido-a-falta-de-mao-de-obra/

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