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Many of the large infrastructure projects planned
for the county will no doubt utilise larger national
companies that will bring the majority of their
own workforce, this will in turn require hospitality
services.
Furthermore, NPT is keen to maximise the natural
landscape to encourage wider tourism activity
with projects such as Wild Fox and GCRE hotel
plans.
Hospitality, Leisure & Tourism
Future Skills
Projects
• Net Zero
• GCRE
• Wild Fox
• Enterprise parks
• Tourism
Future Skills Mapping
• Sustainability:
• Buyers
• Supply chain
• Premises
• Chef , Cooks
• Menu developers
• Food Sciences
• Digital skills
• Green leisure activities
• Essential Traits
✓ Promote local goods & produce
✓ Healthy foods
✓ Take advantages of green tourism opportunities
✓ Change sector perception of long hours low pay – to exciting fun
engaging and confidence building career choice
✓ Proprietor upskill to encourage high street diversification and
attract new markets
✓ Premises retrofit
✓ Embed Essential Traits in younger people, allow and encourage
confidence building and effective communication activity
Hospitality & Leisure sector is crucial for
providing accessible and flexible jobs, with
opportunities to develop valuable and
transferrable essential traits, (the sector serves as
an important entry point for many young people
entering the job market and is often described as
providing the nation’s favourite and best first job.)
High Street retail faces challenging times ahead,
as markets shift from the high street towards
online, potentially reducing the amount of high
street retail staff required. This is a potential
opportunity for HL&T sector to attract retail
staff to this growing sector in the county.
Neath Port Talbot are ideally situated for an
improved tourism offer, with coastal locations
and natural landscapes within the county.
This sector can provide exciting diverse and
rewarding careers which embed core
transferable essential trait skills that all
employers look for, it is also a growth sector as
more people seek domestic holiday destinations
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