41% dip in hiring in travel & hospitality sector

Job search site, Indeed, said in a report that the COVID-19 related disruptions were a major blow to the hospitality and tourism sector, thereby bringing down hiring in 2020 by 41%. There was also a 31% dip in job seekers’ appetite for tourism jobs. It also said that demand (job searches) for tourism jobs outstrip supply (job postings), and the segment witnessed some form of parity in May 2020.

Things continued to be grim for the sector even after the lockdown was lifted. Thus, hiring in the hospitality and tourism sector slowed down by half (51 per cent) in December 2020 as compared to the same month previous year. It added further that metro cities — New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai — accounted for nearly half of the job postings on the job seeking platform. Most of the job seekers belonged to Jalandhar, Chandigarh, New Delhi and Lucknow in 2020.