Tourism industry prepares lay-offs. (hotels and motels, Israel) (Tourism)

Tourism Industry Prepares Lay-offs

Hundreds of hotel workers are due to be laid off if the decline in incoming tourism due to the Gulf crisis continues. In the meantime, the hotels have frozen their plans to let workers go until after the Jewish holidays as high occupancy rates in the hotels are expected due to domestic tourism. Koba Avi-Natan, deputy to the director of the Israel Hotels Association, reported that the lay-offs would probably commence in October, with the beginning of tourism's slow season which lasts for about a month and a half. Some 10% of the 25,000 workers employed in the tourism industry are scheduled to be laid off, mostly in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem …