30.03.2025, 16:23

The tourism industry of the occupied Crimea lacks about 200 thousand workers

For several years in a row, there has been a shortage of personnel in the tourism industry in the occupied Crimea: at the height of the holiday season, the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea lacks about 200 thousand employees. Such a complaint was voiced by the "head of the Crimean hotel association" Sergey Makovey on the air of the Russian occupiers-controlled Radio Crimea.

"We have different statistics, the problem arose not today, but several years ago, and we note that at the high season we lack about 200 thousand workers. We asked the 'Minister of Education of the Republic of Crimea' to review the curriculum, to somehow organize the programs of our young people who are studying so that, for example, during the New Year's holidays or May holidays, we could invite them to our company for internships. We have found understanding, the plans will be rebuilt," he said.

According to Makovey, young specialists are being actively attracted to solve the problem of staff shortage; representatives of the Crimean "authorities", among other things, conclude "agreements" with large Russian universities so that their students can work in the occupied Crimea.

"Today, when we go to the regions [of the Russian Federation], we conclude an agreement with large universities. We have agreements after the exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, and we have a meeting with the leaders of the Ural Federal University, where more than 40 thousand students study. We now have an understanding of how we are going to invite them, to which facilities. We conducted monitoring, our entrepreneurs gave us information about who they need and for how long," Makovey said