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Recreation Experience Expert
Role summary
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The Recreation Experience Expert supports the hotel’s leisure and wellness facilities, helping guests enjoy fitness, recreational, and wellness activities safely and comfortably. Typical requirements include customer-service experience, good communication skills, a professional and energetic attitude, and the ability to work flexible shifts, weekends, and holidays. Fitness, recreation, first-aid, or lifesaving training may be advantageous. The successful candidate is expected to welcome guests warmly, explain facility rules and activities, maintain clean and orderly recreation areas, monitor safety, respond appropriately to incidents, and provide personalized assistance. Strong teamwork, attention to detail, physical stamina, and confidence working with guests of different ages and backgrounds are important.
Can I work in the Philippines?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: The employer files a work permit (Alien Employment Permit) after a local-first job notice, then a 9(g) visa; hotels get permits for specialists, not line staff.
Watch for: From 11 November 2026: job notice online, decision in 10 working days. Filing is online only, at the labour department's central office, since 2026.
Official source: Bureau of Immigration: Pre-arranged Employment Visa (9G). Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the Philippines
Usual for the Philippines, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Not in city hotels; island resorts (Boracay, Siargao) may give shared staff quarters |
|---|---|
| Meals | Duty meals in the staff canteen |
| Flights | Senior packages only |
| Service charge | All of it shared equally among staff except managers (by law); the amount varies by hotel |
| Contract | Probation up to 6 months (by law); foreigners' contracts follow the permit, 1 to 3 years |
| Leave | 5 days after 1 year; 10 regular holidays; 13th-month pay (by law) |
| Income tax | 0% to PHP 250,000 a year (about USD 4,000), then 15% to 35% |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About The Westin Manila
The Westin Manila is part of Westin Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International’s wellness-focused hotel brand. Westin promotes wellbeing through its sleep, nutrition, movement, and mindfulness programs, including the well-known Heavenly Bed, fitness facilities, healthy dining choices, and guest activities designed to help travelers feel refreshed. The Manila property serves business and leisure guests and combines upscale accommodation with restaurants, meeting facilities, recreation, and personalized hospitality. Marriott International is one of the world’s largest hotel companies, operating and franchising thousands of properties across numerous countries and territories. Employees may benefit from structured training, international service standards, career development opportunities, hotel benefits, and Marriott’s global associate culture. The Westin Manila typically looks for people who are service-minded, polished, dependable, and committed to creating a calm, healthy, and memorable guest experience.