Seeking the right tourism job

"Summer job Mykonos," "Hotel maid" - such phrases are systematically repeated by Greek users during their searches on the internet.

"In 2022, we had an increase in searches compared to 2021 in the main specialties of the hotel industry, as reflected on the Google platform," comments Stavros Kefalas, head of Tourix, who studies the phenomenon.

For example, for the position of maitre, the increase in searches compared to 2021 reached 127%, for maintenance they were up 87%, for waiters/bartenders it was 74%, for cooks 71% etc.

"The era of lockdowns has now passed, along with the financial support to hotel employees, so the increase in interest is reasonable," notes Argiris Daouliaris, general manager of operation and quality at a large hotel chain and founder of the platform Innjobs.net, which connects 10,000 registered job seekers with 1,100 hotel groups for free...