The Foreign Faces Behind Qatar’s Hospitality Workforce | skift.com

As often happens in quickly growing tourism economies, many of the men and women that visitors meet throughout their trip are not natives of the country they are working in. According to the Qatar Tourism Authority, a very small number of Qataris currently work in the hotel trade. Expatriate Arabs and Europeans hold many management positions while Asians, primarily from the subcontinent and Philippines, hold service-level positions.