THE hospitality industry could cut the nation?s youth unemployment by a quarter if every business in it agreed to take on just one young person.
That was one of the messages at an event in Bournemouth which saw firms pledge to create 41 apprenticeships, 49 jobs for young people and 69 work experience placements.
The Big Hospitality Conversation, hosted at the town?s Premier Inn in Westover Road, brought together around 100 industry representatives with young people to discuss unemployment and the importance of work experience and apprenticeships.
Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, told the meeting that the hospitality industry was growing rapidly, with 153,000 jobs generated in the midst of the recession from 2010-12.
The industry was responsible for 27.7 per cent of all jobs generated in the UK over that period.
The industry is the fourth biggest in the UK, ahead of transport and financial services.
It accounts for 18.4 per cent of jobs in South Dorset and 13.6 per cent in Bournemouth West.
Ufi Ibrahim told the event: ?There are very few industries in the world that are going to continue to grow at the same pace as our industry.?
There were seven billion people on the planet and people wanted to travel as they became richer, she said.
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Source: Darren Slade (2014). Hospitality industry could cut youth unemployment by a quarter, Daily Echo http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11133250.Hospitality_industry_could_cut_youth_unemployment_by_a_quarter/?ref=rss published Apr 08, 2014. Viewed Apr 09, 2014.