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[email protected] source of industry news is ‘chockablock’ with all the latest research, updates, Art DIRECtor upgrades, launches, innovations, ideas, predictions and information. In Hatsada Tirawutsakul today’s global employment market, how the hospitality industry is tackling COORDINAtor the issues facing recruitment and retention is on page 22 and we discuss the pressure on Wajiraprakan Punyajai Ahoteliers to perform as intensified competition reaches all aspects of an operation. Singapore st CONTRIBUtorS has moved into its 51 year and the hotel industry there is growing robustly, but there’s a Dan Creffield, Michelle Farquhar, noticeable slowdown in manpower growth, and experts are warning there needs to be a Donald Gasper, Robin Lynam, shift towards a more sustainable growth model that is less reliant on additional labour (page Gigi Onag, Jane Ram, Vicki Williams 26).