Articles tagged “labor”

Besides the seasonal factors, the macro picture is that U.S. airlines are cutting flights to improve efficiency, and that also means lower number of full time employees.

Creating a pilot records database out of airline employment records that currently exist on everything from Excel spreadsheets to tattered paper files and PDFs could be more difficult to get together than a certain federal government healthcare insurance website.

In a digital age, destinations and travel companies have as much to gain as job winners. In addition to the brand boost from the application process, a steady stream of content from the road provides companies with a years-worth of social updates.

Major airlines covet their regional airline partners' pilots, and the big carriers are going to have to come up with programs to help the regionals get through the crunch.

Despite its huge and continuing growth, the travel and tourism industry has a PR problem among Generation Y grads looking for serious business careers. The industry must fix its image quick, since it will be looking to fill millions of new jobs over the next few years.

LP's new leadership has a lot of cleaning up to do from the BBC's heavy-handed approach to running the brand. While they do need to be able to reorganize as they see fit, keeping their best employees within the fold has been an issue so far.

Leisure and hospitality jobs include everything from bellboys to bartenders suggesting that factors other than tourism, including rising residency in NYC or an economic rebound, also contributed to the six-year job growth.

This is good news for Hyatt family member Penny Prtizker, the new U.S. commerce secretary, as the family was dogged by the labor strife. It also shows that U.S. unions aren't dead, and that hotel employees have the right to do their jobs with dignity.

Among Spain’s strongest industries and job creators, tourism alone cannot be expected to pull the country out of its recession and provide jobs for 27 percent of its population.