In the travel sector, about a quarter of employees lost their jobs last year. Nine in ten companies with more than ten employees said goodbye to staff. This is evident from the labor market research presented on Wednesday by Reiswerk, a partnership of the ANVR and trade unions FNV and CNV.
This is the first large-scale labor market research in the travel sector since the outbreak of the corona crisis. The D-Travel bankruptcy that was filed earlier this week pronounced, was not included in the study. If that were the case, it would be a decrease of one third.
As is the case in other sectors, staff with a temporary contract and young people in particular were the victims of job losses in the past year. They mainly worked in the departments that provide travel advice and sell the trips. According to Esther Gathier of Reiswerk, almost six in ten temporary contracts have not been renewed.
“We also see that especially young employees have been affected: almost half of employees under the age of 25 lost their job.” Departments engaged in data analysis, legal affairs and price determination have lost few or no jobs.
Reiswerk states that the total of 23 percent of employees who lost their job in the travel world is still ‘not too bad’ thanks to the government support.
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