Travel firms are struggling to retain staff who are battle-weary after working through the Pandemic and want to leave the sector.
The Travel Network Group chief executive Gary Lewis said the staffing crisis was the number-one conversation for the consortium's travel agency members.
He estimated there had been more resignations in the last three months than during the Covid crisis.
Travel industry staff were forced to work long hours to manage bookings that had to be changed or canceled. Staff had to deal with angry clients.
One of the most challenging periods for the travel sector was when many of their colleagues were out of work.
The crisis is about existing people leaving because they have been battered for two years. Those who have left aren't necessarily coming back.
The secretary of the Scottish Passenger Agents Association admitted that it might be difficult to get people to come back.
There are people who have had enough.
I don't know if we will ever get them back. They don't want to come back at this point so we go about attracting them.
She said that more travel and tourism courses were needed to make travel an attractive career choice.
She admitted that pay was an issue in attracting employees.
Retaining and recruiting staff is a double-headed monster in the travel industry according to Spear Travels.
Peter Cookson said that they are not in a position to compete with salaries outside of their industry and that they have also lost staff where they just wanted a change of company.
I don't think it's all about money. There is no confidence in our industry. Will they come back to us in the future? I don't think it will happen.
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