Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2017

75 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT We seek to make meaningful community investments that meet local needs and align with our business activities. We aim to deliver sustainable socio-economic development in the country. The focus of our social investment programme includes building local capability in education and hotel management. Since we launched the internship programmes, we have worked with various universities to take students on internship aimed at getting more young people interested in careers in the hospitality sector. In 2016 and 2017 we had 401 interns in our hotels. 1,500 1,000 500 0 Number of Internships 1,177 169 232 224 238 158 156 Total 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012