It was Shangri-La Villingis the main purpose to visit Maldives in 1 – 9 April 2009, as Binamandiri received demand to supply Hotel Staff on 20 January 2009 for its Human Resource Manager.
Unfortunately, it was different story when Binamandiri met with Human Resource Manager in Male – Maldives. Shangri-La Villingis is the largest investment ever made by Shangri-La Group and ever built in Maldives. It is consist of 143 Villas, 328 Hotel Staff for Pre-Op and occupied 3 kilometre square of Atoll Island of Villingis. He said that Shangri-La Villingis will not be effected by Global Crisis, as big investment already been made, no postponing project, so the show must go on which will be pre opened on July 2009.
BUT, he said, although Shangri-La Villingis will not be effected, The head office of Shangri-La and Shangri-La Hotels all around the world were hit quite bad by economy tsunami. Some Shangri-La hotels chains in some part of the world have to lay off some of their hotel staff.
For that reason and also because based on Maldivian Law, Shangri-La Villingis can hire up to 50% from total employee from overseas, Shangri-La Villingis has to accommodate hotel staff from its sister hotels who being laid off.
The recruitment which has been held by Shangri-La Villingis in Maldives, India and Indonesia which through Binamandiri, has to be postponed until Shangri-La Villingis fully operate in September 2009 where it will add 200 more workers to complete 328 workers that already recruited for Pre-Op.
Hopefully the economy tsunami will not devastate Maldives like the actual tsunami happened in December 2004.