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Retail & Hospitality05 / Retail & Hospitality
A great destination is a well-run business.
Hire leaders who can connect guest and customer experience with commercial performance, teams and the realities of daily operations.
Recruitment intelligence
Market context / 2025 versus 2024
+2.2%
Annual growth in EU tourist accommodation nights
Source, scope & methodology
Another record year for EU tourism in 2025
Eurostat · Published 2026-03-04
Hospitality context only; not a retail statistic or a measure of employment. Eurostat reports almost 3.1 billion accommodation nights in 2025, based on monthly tourism data (tour_occ_nim). Lithuania has a methodology break and no comparable 2024/2025 series. Figures describe the cited release, not a live data feed.
What this means for a hiring brief
Start with the business outcome.
Operators should assess whether commercial and operational leaders can turn guest demand into profitable occupancy while protecting service standards and controlling labour costs.
PropertyTalents’ recruitment perspective on the cited research. National and sector indicators do not establish availability for a particular role.
Shopping centresRetail operatorsHotels & resortsLeisure & hospitality
The hiring lens
Keep the operating models distinct.
Decide what the person must deliver before narrowing the search to familiar job titles.
Hospitality businesses
Look at revenue strategy, service delivery, staffing and the relationship between owner and operator.
Roles & assessment
Know what good
looks like.
Choose a hiring area to see example roles and the evidence to look for. These are recruitment priorities to discuss, not a list of current vacancies.
Example roles
Hotel General Manager
Retail Operations Director
What to assess
Plan this hireMulti-site or property P&L ownership, service quality, workforce planning and evidence of improving operating margins.
Compensation contextCompare the role.
Compare the role.
Then compare the package.
Country, responsibility, asset scale and variable pay all change the comparison. Start with a like-for-like brief before asking for a salary range.
How we approach salary benchmarkingYour next hire
Make the brief
work harder.
Use the hiring area selected above, choose your market and take these questions into the next conversation.
Is this a single-property, cluster or regional leadership role?
Which revenue, occupancy or operating-margin measures will define success?
What opening, repositioning or turnaround experience is relevant?
The download is a short working brief you can edit. It does not submit an enquiry.
