ADDIS ABABA – Addis Ababa Culture Art and Tourism Bureau announced that a dressing code guideline will be approved and implemented soon to correct dressing style of the female hospitality professionals working in hotels.
Bureau Head Hirut Kassaw (PhD) told The Ethiopian Press Agency (EPA) that various activities are being done to correct the dressing code of females’ hospitality professionals working in hotels aimed at promoting Ethiopian culture .
As to the Head, the dressing code of women in the hospitality industry is not in tune with country’s culture. To end this, the dressing code guidelines for hospitality professionals have been finalized and sent to the Mayor’s office for approval whilst the guideline approved soon and put in to implementation after a while.
Similarly, depending on the guideline, the aforementioned professionals will follow a uniform international dress code, which will help control the dress code that does not respect the Ethiopian culture and tradition, she cited. She further stated that when providing hospitality to tourists, it should be in accordance with the culture and values of the country. Therefore, the dress of hospitality professionals in hotels should be formal.
“In some hotels, it depicts that illegal dressing (informal) on women especially hospitality professionals is common due to enforced by the owners of the hotels. However, such action is shameful and disrespectful to the rights of the women,” the head underlined.
Hirut also explained that in order to provide respectable hospitality in hotels, the Bureau provides training to about 2,000 working hospitality professionals per year.
Moreover, the Bureau is working hard to correct the informal dressing code in hotels hospitality professionals. Hotels that has not obeying the rule, it would be punishing whilst awareness creation among the hotels owners and professionals is being carried out, she elaborated.
BY MESERET BEHAILU
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 2 MAY 2024
