Contribution from luxury hotels to combat poverty-socio-economic impact analysis (in the case study of the Jumeirah Group)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (damals GTZ)
Associate Arab Emirates
10/2007 - 12/2007
Client type: Development cooperation,Tourism company
Service type: Baseline Research and Analysis
Services provided:
Development of the investigation design including questionnaires
Comprehensive data collection for several Jumeirah Group hotels with regard to their contributions to local and national added value (wages, purchases, sales of excursions etc.)
Personal interviews with hotel employees on working conditions and consumer behavior
personal interviews with suppliers to their supply chains
Evaluation of the data collected
Summary of the core results including strategic recommendations for action to improve the contribution of the examined hotel for combating poverty