Marriott to Nearly Double Workforce in Mideast, Africa
- Hotelier to hire 30,000 people in next 3 years, 6,000 in Dubai
- Dubai hotel profitability seen strengthening from 2018
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Marriott International Inc., which became the world’s largest hotel operator with its $14 billion purchase of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., plans to almost double its workforce in the Middle East and Africa over the next three years.
The company expects to add 30,000 more people to its regional workforce of 41,000 as new properties are opened, Marriott’s regional president Alex Kyriakidis said on Sunday. About 6,000 of the new jobs will be in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates sheikdom that is the company’s largest market in the Middle East and Africa.