{"id":892,"date":"2009-09-07T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T09:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=892"},"modified":"2009-09-07T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T09:13:05","slug":"dubai-hotels-losing-out-to-yas-island-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/dubai-hotels-losing-out-to-yas-island-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai hotels &#8216;losing out&#8217; to Yas Island attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dubai-yas-island.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-893\" title=\"Dubai hotels 'losing out' to Yas Island attraction  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dubai-yas-island.jpg\" alt=\"Dubai hotels 'losing out' to Yas Island attraction  \" width=\"230\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Better pay, attractive staff accommodation and a perceived stronger economy are just a few reasons an influx of Dubai&#8217;s hotel staff are accepting jobs in new Yas Island properties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoteliers across the emirate have reported significant numbers of staff being poached for pre-openings at new Yas Island hotels in the lead up to the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix, which includes seven new openings commissioned by Aldar Hospitality among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve certainly lost people to Yas Island; while it&#8217;s an element of the hotels there offering higher salaries, I think Abu Dhabi is seen as a safer location at this stage,\u201d said Mina Seyahi Beach Resort and Marina complex director of HR Hein Dames.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found that a lot of people have elected Abu Dhabi as a destination where they would like to work. Economically it is seen as being stronger than Dubai, the business market is stronger, and service charges and tips are better so when it comes to Abu Dhabi versus Dubai staff recognise the financial gains in the capital &#8211; even if they&#8217;re getting the same salary they\u2019re going to a property that&#8217;s busier and generating more revenue,\u201d explained Dames.<\/p>\n<p>Dames said that around 30-to-40 staff members had left the complex having been offered promotions at Yas Island properties, while in Dubai many hotels had enforced promotion and pay freezes.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Al Manzil Hotel and Qamardeen Hotel complex executive housekeeper Ulricke Hocke said: \u201cA lot of staff are going to Abu Dhabi to Yas Island. The hotels there are quite desperate; they&#8217;re taking one of my Burmese boys who has moved from a room attendant to a supervisor so I gave him a supervisor crash training course. He\u2019s been a good attendant for the last three years, he&#8217;s got his big break and I had no vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff get the same benefits here, but I&#8217;ve just been told the property he&#8217;s going to as a supervisor is paying AED 3000, which is huge. We pay well, but we cannot match it. The pay in Abu Dhabi is very good,\u201d added Hocke.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better pay, attractive staff accommodation and a perceived stronger economy are just a few reasons an influx of Dubai&#8217;s hotel staff are accepting jobs in new Yas Island properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}