The aim is work-life integration

Berlin. In the seventies of the 20th century, inter-rail trips were the ultimate travel experience for teens and twens from Europe; but today, cheap flights and hostels, youth trip operators and open borders offer even more thrilling perspectives. But what do the young travellers really want, which preparations are necessary for them, and what can hotels learn from hostels in this process? Last week, a panel discussion at the 8th "ITB Hospitality Day" in Berlin provided some answers.

Berlin. Eager, career-hungry junior hoteliers challenged the participants of the talk "The War for Talent: The Mass Exodus from the Hotel Industry" with their questions at the end. The discussion at the 7th "ITB Hospitality Day" revealed: in order to stop the universally feared mass exodus from the hotel industry, more things would have to change as are obvious right now. However, the experts recommended the junior staff the customary mixture of studies and practice, extended by economic knowledge and international experience. It still remained unclear, whether the graduates of hotel management schools and technical universities should remain exclusively loyal to the industry.