NEWS: Almost half of the staff at this Cape Town hotel are deaf

he Park Inn Radisson Hotel in Cape Town is a beacon of hope for deaf people. It opened its doors in 2014 and is already praised for being the hotel with the highest compliment of deaf employees in the world.



In South Africa there are 1.6 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people and 70% are unemployed. The Park Inn Radisson Hotel in Newlands has 93 employees and 28 are deaf. All of them had no experience of working in a hotel.

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