There are many opportunities for Maldivians who want to become chefs within Four Seasons Resorts Maldives. When we opened Kuda Huraa in 1998, there was no local staff in the kitchen. One of the reasons for launching our apprenticeship program back in 2001 was especially to train Maldivians to become highly skilled chefs and, 18 years later, approximately 60% of the kitchen workforce is Maldivian. That’s a great success story, in my opinion. In our ongoing apprenticeship program – which has seen 597 graduates launch into a hospitality career to date – one fourth of the apprentices focuses on food preparation therefore paving their way to a future as 5* star hotel chefs.