BHA Announces Pledge To Create 30,000 New Jobs By 2015

14th June 2013

At the recent British Hospitality Association Summit the BHAl announced that the UK's hospitality and tourism industries will create over 30,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015.

The catering job opportunities included 14,832 permanent roles, 11,103 apprenticeships, and 5,157 paid university work placements. These pledges were made at a series of nine Big Hospitality Conversation events which have taken place over the last 12 months across the UK from Scotland to the South West. Over 1,200 industry representatives attended these events and made job opportunity pledges including the largest hospitality organisations in the UK such as Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, Accor, Hilton, Compass UK, Sodexo, Marriott, Bartlett Mitchell, BaxterStorey, SSP UK; small hotels, restaurants and catering organisations as well as the most prestigious names such as The Ritz, The Goring, Le Manoir aux Quait' Saisons, The Savoy, and Belfry Hotel.

The Hospitality industry employs 10% of the national workforce and the BHA has coordinated the industry's biggest job creation drive which aims to offer opportunities to unemployed young people in the UK.