Hotels Still Face Wide Gap Between Job Growth and Openings
Photo Credit: Hotels in the September U.S. jobs report only represented a small portion of the hiring. Pixabay / Rodrigo_SalomonHC
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Although hotels recorded job growth in September, the tepid increase served as further validation of the industry's pessimism about solving its labor shortage anytime soon.
Despite a substantial rise in new U.S. leisure and hospitality hiring in September, the hotels portion of that only managed to add 6,700 new jobs, a sign of the industry's ongoing inability to fill the large number of job openings.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed, in its monthly jobs report released on Friday, that leisure and hospitality — which includes hotels — added 83,000 jobs in Se
