{"id":32927,"date":"2021-07-20T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32927"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:52:22","slug":"responding-hospitality-staffing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/news\/responding-hospitality-staffing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How we&#8217;re responding to the hospitality staffing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The combination of Brexit and Covid has caused a crisis across many businesses, including the hospitality sector. To help navigate this crisis, we at Travelodge have launched our new and improved benefits package and are recruiting 680 new roles.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The past 2 years have been unusual to say the least and now we\u2019re approaching the long awaited removal of restrictions but with international travel restrictions changing frequently we are gearing up for a busy summer. A combination of Brexit and Covid has left many hospitality businesses struggling to fill positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing the challenges the industry is facing and the potential high demand for talent, now&#8217;s the time for us all to think about how we build better stronger teams for now and for the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to revamp our benefits package, available to all team members from the very first day they join Travelodge:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% off hotel stays, food &amp; drink<\/li>\n<li>Competitive rates of pay &amp; pension<\/li>\n<li>Flexible shift patterns<\/li>\n<li>\u00a350 voucher on each work anniversary<\/li>\n<li>Friends and family discounts and discounts off high street retailers, mobiles &amp; gym membership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As well as the opportunity to join our Aspire programme designed to develop the hospitality leaders of the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year we\u2019re looking to fill 680 positions across the country in readiness for the summer Staycation season. This recruitment drive includes 637 full &amp; part time positions across the company\u2019s UK Travelodge hotels. Positions include 45 management roles for Hotel Manager and Assistant Hotel Manager positions. The other roles include: Bar Caf\u00e9 Team Member, Housekeeping Team Member and Receptionist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Find out more about our vacancies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" class=\"wpel-icon-right\">here<span class=\"wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-6\"><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The combination of Brexit and Covid has caused a crisis across many businesses, including the hospitality sector. To help navigate this crisis, we at Travelodge have launched our new and improved benefits package and are recruiting 680 new roles. The past 2 years have been unusual to say the least and now we\u2019re approaching the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":32928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1812],"class_list":["post-32927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}