{"id":20502,"date":"2022-09-07T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:11:34","slug":"tourism-chief-meets-hastings-hotel-group-trainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2022\/09\/tourism-chief-meets-hastings-hotel-group-trainees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Chief Meets Hastings Hotel Group Trainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Grand-Central-Caption-Embedded-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20503\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Grand-Central-Caption-Embedded-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured (l-r) are; Andrew McCullough, Pearse Copeland, Aine Kelly, John McGrillen, Margarida Periera, Amy Howard and Nicole Hardy. Photo by Jonathan Porter \/\/ Presseye.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tourism NI&#8217;s Chief Executive John McGrillen met with trainee managers at the Grand Central Hotel this week as part of a skills and training programme hosted by the Hastings Hotel Group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commenting on the meeting Mr McGrillen said;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTourism is a job intensive industry and provides a wide range of employment opportunities for young people at all levels from front of house through to management and senior leadership roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAcross the UK, 50% of young people between the ages of 16 and 24 find their first job in the tourism and hospitality sectors, many of whom develop the life skills they require to move into other sectors of the economy and develop successful careers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne of the greatest strengths that Northern Ireland has as a tourism destination is our people who genuinely welcome visitors to our shores and go the extra mile so that visitors enjoy their time here. As we recover from the economic shocks of the last two years it is vital that our young people continue to have a wide range of opportunities in tourism and hospitality. We in Tourism NI will do all we can to work with business owners and leaders to address the issues and challenges ahead\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism NI&#8217;s Chief Executive John McGrillen met with trainee managers at the Grand Central Hotel this week as part of a skills and training programme hosted by the Hastings Hotel Group.\u00a0 Commenting on the meeting Mr McGrillen said; \u201cTourism is a job intensive industry and provides a wide range of employment opportunities for young people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2022\/09\/tourism-chief-meets-hastings-hotel-group-trainees\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1595,1593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20505,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions\/20505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}