Hospitality sector's reasons for difficulty recruiting UK 2019

According a 2019 survey of employers in the hospitality sector in the United Kingdom, 28 percent of respondents stated that hard-to-fill vacancies were due to a low number of applicants with the required skills. That was compared to 20 percent of respondents that indicated the low number of applicants in general as the main reason for hard-to-fill vacancies in this sector.

Main causes given by of hard-to-fill vacancies in the hotel and restaurant sector in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2019

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Release date

October 2020

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2019*

Number of respondents

20,591 respondents

Special properties

hotel and restaurant establishments; all with hard-to-fill vacancies

Supplementary notes

Responses were unprompted.
'The source did not indicate the exact survey dates.
Data can be found under Table 30 in the Excel sheet.
This statistic using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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