Saturday, January 14, 2017

Super rich discuss inequality at WEF while Davos staff sleep five to a room in bunks...

Hundreds of chambermaids, doormen and cocktail waiters have been flown to Davos to cater to every whim of world leaders, business executives and the super-rich who will descend next week on the Swiss Alps town for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) celebration of capitalism.

While WEF guests, including Theresa May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and South African president Jacob Zuma, will spend their nights in some of the world’s most luxurious hotel suites, the staff brought in to serve them will be sleeping up to five to a room in bunk beds.

The manager of the fanciest hotel in Davos – the Grandhotel Belvédère – said he had flown in 200 extra staff to work in shifts around the clock during the annual jamboree of the rich and powerful. “We normally have about 100 employees, but this week we have 300 to help us out,” Thomas Kleber, general manager of the Belvédère, said.

Kleber said the extra staff have been flown in from partner hotels across the world to help out during the Belvédère’s busiest week of the year, but because the whole of Davos is packed out with forum visitors there isn’t much space to accommodate the additional workers. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. The millionaires building bunkers in their mansions and buying land...
  2. Wealth of super rich soars as the worst-off lose out, report says...
  3. 62 world’s richest people own same wealth as half the world...
  4. Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth...
  5. Top 1% taking lion's share of global growth...
  6. The amount of money hoarded by the uber elite will astound you...
  7. Why the rich are freaking out...
  8. Combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of poorest 3.5 billion...

No comments:

Post a Comment