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Hotels fight for staff…

By Andrew Mills, Corina Pons and Catarina DemonyDOHA/LISBON/MADRID (Reuters) — Top European hotel chains are hiring workers without experience or even a resume as executives admit years of underpaying staff have come back to bite, leaving them unable to meet post-pandemic travel demand.Thousands of workers left the hospitality industry when international travel shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many chose not to return, finding better paid employment elsewhere, leaving hoteliers facing a desperate shortage.Europe’s largest hotelier Accor is running trial initiatives to recruit people who haven’t previously worked in the industry, Chief Executive Sebastien Bazin said in an interview with Reuters at the Qatar Economic Forum last month.Accor, which operates brands like Mercure, ibis and Fairmont in over 110 countries, needs 35,000 workers globally, he said.“We tried in Lyon and Bordeaux ten days ago and this weekend we’re having people interviewed with no resume, no prior job experience and they are hired within 24 hours,” Bazin said …

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