Volcano Erupts and Air Travel Halts

Just over 100 years ago there was no air travel and transport was by land or sea; its hard to understand how life ran so normally without the ease and speed of international air transport. Yet here we are with multiples of countries where there are no airports open and we are told by the press that the impact on travel is the worst since 9/11. Closed or partly closed as we blog are the following airports: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Sweden and UK . Closer to home at MSE Paul Sanett, Development Director for Hilton Worldwide and partner of our colleague Ariel Freeman is finally on his way back to the UK having been stranded in Iceland for the last 48 hours. Karen Skelton, our International Hotel and Hospitality Associate had her trip to Milan postponed as all flights were cancelled from Gatwick Airport.
Whilst at breakfast with a client at the Lanesborough Hotel, London this morning one guest was overheard to ask if could have a list of all directly accessable European Airports open from London in order to return home and received a short response ....Zurich.
Taking a broader view there will be winners and losers from this force majeure; hotels are reporting overbooking as stranded passengers seek accommodation, tourist attractions are also likely to reap the benefit as visitors search for entertainment to keep them occupied during this unforseen natural disaster and of course buses, boats and trains are experiencing record bookings as passengers try to get home come what may by any means they can. Tweet

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MSE were out in force during the IHIF and the ITB events earlier in the month. There is still a high demand for talented hospitality senior executives particularly from the Resort Hotel Companies and from the Hotel Owning Companies. The ongoing development of new brands is putting greater pressure on the hotel chains to develop talent internally and where the demand exceeds supply they are looking to the search firms to identify top talent from their competitors. MSE has recently been working with the major multinationals and prestigious Luxury Resort Chains and has successfully completed several senior Executive Search Assignments including Board and Corporate mandates in Europe, the Indian Ocean and UK.

Our Real Estate and Advisory specialists are keen to speak with senior decision makers who are in hiring mode as they have arguably the best talent pool in this sector of the industry. Clearly many companies have significantly reduced the size of their teams and will find themselves in a very competitive arena in order to find high achievers in the not too distant future. Please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7395 3790 Tweet

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