The number of new travel job vacancies rose by 11% month on month in March to reach its second highest level in seven months, according to C&M Travel Recruitment.
Despite this, March’s total was down by 32% on the same month in 2023, which experienced a strong start to the year.
Describing March as a “positive month for new roles”, the travel recruitment specialist also saw the number of candidates being placed in new travel jobs reach its second highest total since last August.
However, March saw a small fall of 3% from February.
There was also small dip in the number of new candidates searching for travel jobs in March, with the month registering a 2% fall.
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However, this remained 25% up on the pre-pandemic month of March 2019 and was the second highest March total in the past six years.
Barbara Kolosinska, C&M Travel Recruitment managing director, said: “Activity levels are still lower than we would ideally like to see them and remain down compared to the pre-pandemic period, but there were many positives to take from last month.
“Job vacancies and placements both reached their second highest levels since last summer, while the number of new candidate registrations also remained historically high for March.
“We now need some consistency. Easter is likely to affect April’s numbers, but once that’s out of the way we will hopefully see month-on-month increases across all of these metrics as we build towards the summer months.”
The figures are drawn from the month’s new vacancies advertised with C&M Travel Recruitment.
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