North County Times: Job Picture Improves in November as economy begins to heal
from the North County Times December, Friday December 16, 2011:
Over the past year, the leisure and hospitality sector added 6,000 jobs.
“The industry tried to hold on to its labor force, but we shed jobs in 2009 and 2010, and in 2011, there wasn’t much hiring until very recently,” said veteran hotelier Bob Rauch of R.A. Rauch & Associates Inc., a San Diego-based hotel management company.
Last week, Rauch opened his La Jolla-based 40-room Pantai Inn, a super-luxury boutique hotel with a Balinese theme. He hired 15 people for the Pantai and has added here and there at his other properties, including the Homewood Suites by Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn, both of which are in Carmel Valley.
