HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY
Abstract
The paper goes on to explain the critical contribution of employees to the competitive advantage of tourism organisations and why human resources are an important issue for the industry. The model of performance management adopted by an organisation must be customised to meet individual business and employee needs. A series of activities were undertaken to fulfil the objectives above. A framework was developed to explore the links between tourism and human resource management. A second round of discussions was held with representatives of the tourism industry to determine how tourism industry is recruiting and retaining employees with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes to their work. The relationship between tourism and human capital is complex, of inter-conditioning, each of the two elements having at the same time the role of cause and effect. Thus, the stimulation of the growth of tourism is an important medium of relaunching of the labour, but the development, respectively the retardation of the development of tourism depends on the existence or the inexistence of the human resources in the reference territory.Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
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