Hcareers Shares 2015 Hotel Growth Forecast And Q3 Hospitality Recruitment Data

DENVER, Jan. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Strong demand and growth
Leading hospitality job board Hcareers released its 2015 hotel growth forecast via article, Bright Outlook for U.S. Hotel Growth. The article includes interviews with Smith Travel Research and Interstate Hotels and speaks to expected growth and demand in the hotel industry.

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"In 2014, the U.S. hotel industry sold more rooms and will have generated more room revenue than ever before," says Jan Freitag, senior vice president of strategic development at STR, a leading global provider of competitive benchmarking, information services, and research to the hotel industry. The company anticipates occupancy to end the year at around 64 percent, a level unseen since 1996, according to a recent STR press release.

Driving factors of the strong demand growth include, "Leisure travelers, a healthy demand from business travelers, and a continuing rebound of the group traveler, which was hit hard during the recent recession," says Freitag.

Recruitment on the rise
The industry's growth will certainly demand new talent entering the hospitality field.  "Our industry is ripe with opportunity for young professionals looking for a life-long career," says Jim Abrahamson, chief executive officer, Interstate Hotels and Resorts and chair of the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA) 2015/2016. "Hotels offer good paying jobs with benefits and a fast track to more senior positions. No other industry epitomizes the American Dream like our industry. And it's a lot of fun, too."

Hcareers Q3 2014 Hospitality Jobs Snapshot also speaks to the health of the industry, with nearly 60,000 hotel/resort jobs posted to Hcareers.com in Q3 2014 (75% of those being in the US).

Hotel/resort management jobs with quarter-over-quarter increases in terms of jobs posted by US employers included: destination/event manager (75 percent), director of operations (37 percent), administration (34 percent), assistant general manager (31 percent), marketing/PR (25 percent), catering (24 percent), rooms director (15 percent), sous chef (14 percent), executive chef (13 percent), revenue management (10 percent), and front office/guest services (10 percent).

The five most in-demand US hotel/resort non-management jobs in Q3 as indicated by quantity of Hcareers employer postings were: housekeeper (5,221), front desk (3,267), administration (3,089), cook (1,866), and maintenance (1,618).

Contact:
K. Berger, Hcareers
[email protected]
303-562-0144
(Accompanying photos available upon request)

SOURCE Hcareers

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