GetATraveltasker is a non-profit initiative to #RESTARTTOURISM
In the last few months the human resources side of the travel industry was strongly dominated by the following topics:
- Hundreds of people lost their job
- Working from home became a thing many people like to keep
- With the restart of travel, many travel companies are short on staff but have no time/budget to hire and train new staff
This situation causes major issues in our daily business and at the same time, it is very sad knowing so many people desperately looking for a new job in the industry.
Long term I see big opportunities to change the way people work in travel.
As 90% of the tasks can be done remote the hybrid working model makes a lot of sense.
But there is more: Travel is a seasonal business and most travel companies struggling with short peaks and long downs. This is not just inefficient but also boring for the employees – even they have some maintenance tasks to do during low season.
I strongly believe it is time for the travel industry to move on to a more flexible working environment – and to leave the busy and loud basement located offices behind.
A hybrid „Freelancing Experts“ model will help us to build the backbone of the industry.
Get the experts when you need them & let them work on other projects during low season.
This is not new at all. Many industries like IT, health and creatives have adapted this model many years ago. Now it is time for the travel industry to change.
With „Get a Traveltasker“ I like to take a step in this direction and help to #RESTARTTOURISM. The project is non-profit and I hope it will help all those travel champions out there to get found and get hired (again) to build a better travel industry.