Manila-based luxury hotel to hire thousands from Cebu

CEBU, Philippines - Publicly-listed Solaire Resort and Casino, which will be opened in Manila next year, needs to hire 4,600 full-time employees, and has identified Cebu as one of its primary manpower supplier for this requirement.

Solaire Resort & Casino will be the Philippines’ first integrated resort to open in PAGCOR’s Entertainment City located along the Philippines’ famed Manila Bay. Solaire will combine luxury accommodations, a Vegas-inspired casino environment, signature restaurants and personalized service.

Solaire Resort and Casino chief executive officer (CEO) Michael French said that although the company has received a total of 18 thousand applicants for the various job requirements of the luxury resort, he said only about nine to 10 percent of the total number are qualified for employment.

Cebu’s reputation in tourism, and an educational hub for Southern Philippines, gives opportunity for the company to find the best people here, specifically those that have good experiences from the booming and world-class hospitality sector here.

Solaire Resort & Casino is a US$1 billion integrated destination resort being developed by Bloomberry Resorts Corporation. It is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2013.

Maximizing awareness and bringing employment opportunity to provinces, including Cebu the company has recently done its recruitment caravan in Cebu at the Radisson Blu hotel Cebu.

French said Solaire intends to offer and provide an exceptional work environment, with top tier benefits and innovative development programs that the resort hopes will encourage every member of Team Solaire to have long and rewarding careers in the organization.

Also, aside from drumming awareness of employment opportunity across the country, the resort’s management is also helping the country’s aim to promote “brain-gain” by bringing back Filipinos who are now working in the hospitality establishments abroad, to go back in the Philippines, and work here.

This early, the company already received over 300 OFW applicants wanting to work with the resort. Most of them are now working in Macau.

Solaire intends to strengthen the Philippines bid of becoming one of the “gaming” capital in Asia, with intention to bring in more Casino high-rollers from all over the world, said French.

Solaire, a luxury hotel and destination casino resort, will be the first integrated resort to open in the government sponsored (PAGCOR) economic development zone known as “Entertainment City.” (FREEMAN)