The Abu Dhabi National Hotels Company sent a message to all hotel operators in the world from Abu Dhabi, urging them to act responsibly and share a small part of the fees and profits that they achieved during the past years to support workers at all levels in the hotel sector, and establish a solidarity fund to help employment in the event of recurring crises Difficult conditions will affect the sector in the future.
The CEO of Abu Dhabi National Hotels Company, Khaled Anib, said that the hotel and hospitality sector in various parts of the world has been subjected to a major halt due to the measures taken in various countries to preserve human life in light of the repercussions of the spread of the Corona virus globally.
Anib pointed out that the biggest focus of all hotel owners in the world today is how to deal with this unprecedented challenge in light of the great decline in occupancy levels during a short period of time.
Anib noted that paying a number of hotel workers to obtain paid or unpaid vacations is unfortunately a necessity to reduce the cost of salaries, indicating that the hotels continue to bear all the other employees ’privileges, namely residence, insurance and others, besides bearing the expenses of continuing hotels such as paying debts Interest due, building maintenance and other capital expenditures.
He said that he recommended in the company the release of part of the end of service reward to support the workers financially, thanking the members of the board of directors for agreeing to this step, expressing optimism that the activity will return to the sector again, with a commitment to stay at home now.