Hoteliers are complaining about the staff turnover ratio in Sri Lankan hotels being unbelievably high mainly on account of the unprecedented expansion of the tourist business, especially in the Middle East and in other parts of the world.
“Sri Lankan Hotels continue to be a very buoyant training ground for overseas employers. The entire industry is training more and more personnel whose ambition is to initially migrate to other countries to find employment and this situation has made Sri Lanka lose its best staff very rapidly,” M. T. A. Furkhan, Chairman Confifi Hotels told The Sunday Times FT.
He said that most of local skilled personnel venture into the overseas markets, resulting in local employers having to make do with lesser skilled people at increasingly high cost of salaries.
“Unless some attempt is made to reverse this “brain drain” trend, Sri Lanka’s hotel sector will sooner or later have to face the problems of low productivity and severe shortage of human resources skills to match the demands,” he reiterated. [Read more]
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