Barclays survey predicts hospitality job boom

The research, undertaken in January and February this year, found that the majority of UK businesses will create jobs, but employers are still not looking to employ public sector workers.

Some 61% of the 700 surveyed operators said they expected to offer new jobs in 2013 – up from 55% on last year. Meanwhile, 77% were not planning on making any job losses over the next 12 months.

Elsewhere, 51% of hotels, restaurants, pubs and bars said they were interested in hiring ex-public sector workers – compared with 57% of businesses across all sectors which said they did not want to do so.

Mike Saul, head of hospitality and leisure, corporate banking at Barclays, said: "[The hospitality sector] is well placed to offer opportunities to a broad spectrum of individuals from many different employment backgrounds and, as our research shows, there is clearly room and appetite to develop these aspirations."

Barclays recently published a survey showing that the hospitality industry is missing social media opportunities.