Indian metro cities drive hiring in the tourism sector in 2020: Indeed data

Kolkata: Data from Indeed, an actual time indicator of labour market exercise in India, confirmed that the hospitality and tourism sector in India witnessed a pointy 41% decline in hiring between 2019 and 2020. Job seekers’ urge for food for tourism jobs additionally plummeted as job searches on Indeed was down 31%, over the similar interval.

2020, like 2019, noticed the demand (job searches) for tourism jobs outstrip provide (job postings), solely witnessing some type of parity in May 2020. Long after the lockdown was lifted and regardless of security measures in place, hiring in the hospitality and tourism sector slowed down by half ( 51%) in December 2020 as in comparison with the similar interval final yr.

Of all the hiring in 2020, metro cities New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai accounted for practically half of the job postings on Indeed. Maximum aspirants for these jobs, nonetheless, emerged from Jalandhar, Chandigarh, New Delhi, and Lucknow in 2020. This was an attention-grabbing departure from the prime cities in 2019 the place job seekers regarded for hospitality and tourism jobs, particularly common tourism hubs earlier than the pandemic set in: Goa, Panchkula, Chandigarh, Guwahati and Delhi.

“Though job postings and searches have seen a dip from pandemic-induced restrictions on mobility, while fear of the virus kept consumers away from traditional vacation spots, there is hope in a new year, and a new season of travel. All sights are trained on its recovery, which we hope will be spurred by the surge in domestic travel and the recently initiated vaccination drive,” concluded Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, Indeed India.