Opening of hotels in Guanacaste will create 4,000 jobs

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Hotel entrepreneurs have planned development projects between 2013 and 2016

The tourism industry has planned the development of hotel projects in the province of Guanacaste which would generate around 4 000 jobs from the year 2013 and 2016, said businessmen from the region.

The President of the Guanacaste Chamber of tourism Alvaro Conejo (CATURGUA), explained that the strong demand for labour in the next few years has worried employers, because do not know if it can be achieved properly and in the required time.

During the following three years the industry will require personnel in areas ranging from construction to the personnel required in hotels as receptionists, maids, cooks (as) and other workers in technical fields.

Hotels that are planned to open over the next three years are: view of the sea with 58 rooms, the Papagayo Andaz hotel with 153 rooms, both with intentions for their openings in the month of December.

While that for the year 2014 plan to inaugurate the Papagayo Meliá Hotel with 379 rooms, within the canton of Carrillo; and the Dreams the tides in Salinas with a capacity of 447 rooms.

In addition to these hotels, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute added to the playlist Enjoy Group hotel with 86 rooms, which will be built in Playa Panama, hotel Courtyard Marriott in the Gulf of Papagayo chain that will have 360 rooms.

So that there are no missing in the labor force for the opening of these hotels, entrepreneurs have created alliances with the National Learning (INA) to collaborate with the preparation of personnel in the hotel industry-oriented careers.

According to a report of the Costa Rican Chamber of construction was stressed that the construction of hotels in this province handled by that institution was 7 198 square meters by 2010, figure which increased to 91 469 square meters in 2011 and for the previous year rose to 93 719.

Posted by Costa Developers