The Department of Tourism (DOT) alongside Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has officially merged through a signing of memorandum of Understanding (MOU)for the tourism job fair program dubbed as "Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso! National Tourism Jobs Fair" on August 30.
The program will help strengthen the tourism industry's manpower needs, which had been stopped due to two year long pandemic.
“We are prioritizing the provision of employment opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector in response to the severe losses in income and livelihood due to the pandemic, and the present shortage of workforce in the tourism industry,” said Department of Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco.
Added that the “The ‘Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso Job Fair’ will help our fellow Filipinos find jobs while helping the accommodation and services sector address workforce shortages, resulting in the continued recovery of the tourism industry as a whole.”
The job fair will continue for a month that will conclude until May 2023, with other initial job fair sites located in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao.
The DOT, through its regional offices, will be coordinating with DOLE regional/field office sand Public Employment Service Offices in local government units for the simultaneous conduct of job fair.
The DOLE, for its part, shall provide appropriate assistance on the conduct of DOT sponsored job fairs; ensure monitoring and supervision of all job fairs sponsored by the DOT as organized by concerned PESO pursuant to applicable DOLE guidelines; and, screen the requirements of all participating entities, among others.
Aside from employment opportunities within the country, Tourism Secretary Frasco also recently announced that overseas hospitality career opportunities will be made available to Filipinos in a separate job fair in coordination with the Department of Migrant Workers and DOLE. This, after Thailand’s Minister of Tourism and Sports (MOTS) Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn sought Secretary Frasco’s assistance for possible tourism employment opportunities for Filipinos in Thailand. This developed during the two ministers’ bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the recently concluded APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok.
“Providing tourism employment opportunities in the Philippines and abroad is important because this will help the thousands of Filipino workers and their families who were displaced or repatriated because of the pandemic. For new graduates and others seeking a career in tourism, this will also open new doors for economic prosperity. Overall, the goal is to balance the need for services of the accommodation sector with the needs for employment of tourism workers, that would lend stability to the tourism industry,” enthused Secretary Frasco.
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