With a youth mobility bill poised to be laid in the House of Commons, Seasonal Businesses in Travel director Diane Palumbo explains the impact of Brexit on travel and tourism businesses reliant on "posting" seasonal workers oversees – and the knock-on detriment to travel in terms of loss of talent.
UK businesses can no longer 'post' seasonal workers, like chalet hosts, to work overseas (Credit: iStock / bernardbodo)
We’ve all either heard it or said it ourselves: “why do you want to work in travel?” It’s a standard interview question for most companies when recruiting. Yet many are already picking up subtle changes in the answers given by younger candidates – and it’s not good news.
Besides telling us they love travelling themselves, candidates’ responses frequently used to be followed by the words “after I did my season(s)”. Post-Brexit, these are not experiences younger candidates can so easily draw on.
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