EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM INDUSTRIES.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Management in International Hospitality and Tourism Industries.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Management practices in International Hospitality and Tourism Industries

Introduction

The globalization of business means that the managerial workers must be able to deal effectively with people from other countries. Workplace diversity in International Hospitality and Tourism Industries is not prized simply because it is pleasant to have different groups working next to each other, but because these groups must work together as a team to serve a variety of customers, and to generate a wide variety of useful ideas. Tourism is a shift away from its usual place of residence for more than 24 hours but less than 4 months, for purposes of recreation, professional purposes (business tourism) or a goal health (health tourism). The change of venue, duration and reasons for living, the three characteristics of tourism determine its forms, classification and distribution of tourist nights. On this basis, distinguishes domestic tourism, tourism outside (the crossing of borders) and patterns. The impact measurement, usually economic, is based on overnight stays (Cassell, 2009,, 23).

Tourism has developed into the world economy as a very important and dynamic sectorIt enables the creation of jobs for various levels, professional and unskilled, and who are often excluded from the labor market, such as women. In some developing countries, tourism is already an important and dynamic sector and will continue in other countries (Cassell, 2009,, 23).

Discussion

Equal Opportunity

When we see on the matter of equal opportunity in tourism and hospitality organizations, we will come to a conclusion that employing organization is 'an equal opportunities employer'. We need to check out that whether we have discovered equality of opportunities within organizations or not, have we get rid of discrimination, do we actually have a society where gender, race, disability, age, religion and sexuality are not at all important than eye colour. Is there equal treatment in recruiting and selecting employees, training and growth, payment, career growth and support? These are the important questions that need to be answered. Particularly, we will find out that how often employees get the disadvantage in the workplace, despite of their character and capabilities. The way in which tourism and international hospitality are looking for to deal with the subject of equal opportunities may differ significantly and at this time it is obliging to know the functional difference obtainable by Goss (1994) with view to the matter of equal opportunities. The comparison of opportunity and treatment for women and men have had throughout history leave no doubt about the persistence of various forms of discrimination and inequality between the genders, including restrictions and excessive demands which continue requires of women for access to employment and career development and training is one of the most irritating.

Hence the need to develop and implement major policy aimed to intervene at all levels in International Hospitality and Tourism Industries where discrimination operates. Policies to enable synergies between multiple stakeholders, public and private, governmental ...