The Newberg, Oregon Allison Inn & Spa opens in September, and so far 1,000 people have applied for the 85-room resort’s 160 service positions. A job fair was held this week in Newberg. Applicants waited in a three-hour queue to interview for front desk, restaurant, bar, spa and maintenance & engineering positions. Oregon’s unemployment rate of 12.4% [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 5, 2009
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is hiring 800 workers. The resort has already added 400 people in an expansion. The new jobs include dealers and hotel staff. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino off the Las Vegas Strip was launched in 1995. The $100 million expansion has nearly doubled the hotel’s capacity. Share [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Nevada-based Las Vegas Sands will cut up to 4,000 jobs in the Macau Special Administrative Region of mainland China. The jobs will be cut from the firm’s 20,000-person Macau workforce by September. Las Vegas Sands has stopped work on its $12 billion, 20,000-room complex of hotels and casinos on Macau’s Cotai Strip. It also canceled a $600 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
Pebble Beach Resorts is laying off 47 employees, including 14 in management. The company eliminated 29 jobs in November, including 24 managers. Usually, the firm’s busy season begins in May. But cancellations have exceeded new bookings in four of the past six months. The company runs several luxury resorts and four golf courses. It employs more than 1,500 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Maui Land & Pineapple will eliminate 100 jobs at its Kapalua Resort and corporate offices this week and is cutting pay by 10% for its remaining employees. The work-force reductions and pay cuts, combined with trimming budgets, closing and consolidating offices, placing some projects on hold and other cost-cutting measures, are expected to save $7 million [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
Cedar Point is looking to hire 4,500 people to fill various jobs at the theme park during the 2009 operating season. Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It currently holds the world record for most roller coasters (17), one of which, Top Thrill [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 19, 2009
Burbank, California’s Walt Disney Company, the world’s biggest theme-park operator, is reorganizing its US resort operations and cutting jobs. The action consolidates oversight of parks in Southern California and Florida under Al Weiss, president of worldwide operations. The company offered voluntary buyouts to about 600 parks-unit executives last month, and extended discounts through August 15th to lure [...]
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