Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – More than 1,500 job vacancies will be offered during the initial leg of the “Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso! Philippine Tourism Job Fair” happening this coming September 22 to 24.
Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco made the announcement on Tuesday (August 30) at the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing between the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
“The agreement we are formalizing today by way of a memorandum of understanding Between the Department of Tourism and the Department of Labor and Employment is essential, responsive, and proactive to the tourism employment sector,” said Secretary Frasco.
“I express my profound gratitude to DOLE Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma for his kind acceptance and willingness to undertake this collaboration with the DOT to open up employment and livelihood opportunities to our fellow Filipinos in the tourism industry across our islands in the Philippines. Through this MOU between the DOT and DOLE, we will jointly conduct job fairs to fill in the gaps caused by job lost due the pandemic on one, and on the other the need to fill up essential job vacancies of the gradually recovering tourism industry,” added Secretary Frasco.
The MOU, which was signed between the two Secretaries and witnessed by DOT Undersecretary Ferdinand Jumapao and DOLE OIC-Undersecretary for Employment and Human Resource Development Paul Vincent Añover, seeks to formalize the partnership of both national agencies to provide an avenue for the creation of employment opportunities in the tourism sector and allied industries.
A total of 1,538 vacancies, 1,273 of which are full-time job posts and 265 part-time openings from the 293 establishments surveyed by the DOT as of August 30 will be offered during the initial leg of the “Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso! Philippine Tourism Job Fair”, which the DOT and DOLE shall simultaneously launch in three different cities across the country.
The DOLE Online Establishment Reporting System determined that the Accommodation and Food Service Activities Industry recorded 12,717 local job displacements from 739 reporting establishments from January to June 2022.
“Tonight’s event comes at an important juncture, where we join together in this MOU to further advance our partnership and support. With this, I would like to express my gratitude…
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