Top hiring sectors in Mauritius

Are you writing theses? Lol...
Professionally speaking, tourism and banking sectors are the major employer of labor in the island. Other business revolve around them.
The tourism sector has the capacity of producing more job opportunity if professionals/diplomats are employed to manage the businesses.

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Julien wrote:

Hi,

let’s talk about job opportunities in Mauritius.

What are the top hiring sectors?

And according to you, what are the most promising job sectors, which will keep creating jobs in Mauritius?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience,

Julien

Not only banking, but the financial sector as a whole - banking (retail, investment, private), stock exchange, insurance, hedge funds, private equity funds, asset management and more importantly global business (offshore) especially with new tax avoidance agreements in the process of being implemented with many African countries, on the same line as that we already have with India.

Information and Telecommunication sector

Seafood Hub - booming and much money have been injected, the latest investment is by the Chinese, up to Rs 5 Billion for the coming years.

Cane Industry (not to be confused with sugar industry) - production of alcohol (ethanol), power sector, spirits e.g rum making, production of molasses for other industries.

Manufacturing - some specific segments

Tourism/Hospitality - stagnation mode. Will pick up again when/if the Euro crisis recedes. Also, hoping for efforts to conquer new and emerging markets yield positive results

Ocean economy - in its early stage of development and investment - will pick up momentum in the coming years

Thanks for your messages

I agree with Kaviraj about the general Tourism industry stagnating but it appears to me that Medical Tourism is picking up. As per some statistics online, it went from about a 1000 foreign patients in 2005 to about 15,000 in 2011. I can't find the figures for last year.

What is certain is that the number of private hospitals and clinics have increased dramatically - as has the quality of infrastructure and the number of Mauritian medical professionals returning home to practice after gaining their qualifications abroad. So this sector has definitely started hiring more professionals (including more expat doctors), front-desk staff & service personnel.

A holiday maybe a luxury but getting a root canal or angioplasty done economically will always be essential (and they don't, for example, include dental work as part of one's National Health Insurance contributions in the UK)

As for the non-essential, I think there was something in the 2012 budget about a new VAT exemption on plastic and cosmetic surgery

Yep...medical tourism is picking up.

Same for 'Business Tourism'. With Mauritius positioning itself as a prominent 'MICE' destination for the region and with Africa rising, this type of industry will gain momentum.
Hence the construction of some business-oriented hotels and also many existing ones modifying part of their structure and services to cater more to this affluent segment of travelers.