Hotels have 'lost good people' says GM
‘The Irish hotel sector has lost a lot of good people during the pandemic’, hotelier Patrick Linnane told Micheline Corr in the latest ‘The Firm Optimist’ video interview.
The general manager of the new Dublin ‘Point A’ hotel, said that many supervisors and middle management staff had moved from the industry into retail and tech jobs.
‘We need to get our industry open again to show people that hotels can offer a great career path’.
He said that Ireland’s first Point A hotel will open in August in a seven storey building on Parnell Street in the centre of the city. The hotel was initially scheduled to open in May, but this has been delayed due to the current lock-down.
It will be the first Irish hotel operated by the Point A group which was established in 2017 and already has ten hotels in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Dublin hotel will have 141 guestrooms and the owners have planning permission to add a further 33 rooms, which Patrick said are likely to come on stream in 2023/24. The company also has plans to build a second 95 guestroom hotel in Dublin’s Liberties.