Around a third of the staff at the resort are EU nationals from outside of the UK, though the ratio has fallen from 33% in February last year to 29% last month.

The hotel has seen the number of job applications from those outside the UK plummet by around 75% since the Brexit referendum, from around 200 per year to just 50.

Linda Johnston, co-founder and managing director of Auchrannie, said most of the EU nationals now joining the resort are moving from other jobs within the UK.

Due to a rise in employment competition, particularly in places like Arran, where there is a shortage of affordable homes for locals, resort management believed that it should supplement the area’s housing stock for its employees.

Ms Johnson said: “That is one of the things that we have to do to attract quality people to our business and retain them. It has become even more important after Brexit and the new immigration policy that was recently announced. We are doing absolutely everything we can to make Auchrannie an employer of choice. That’s why we’ve also been investing in things like training and development programmes, to make hospitality a genuine career decision.”

Due to be completed in June this year, the three new staff accommodation units will increase the number of rooms for employees to 102. The Auchrannie resort currently has approximately 180 members of staff.

Around a quarter of the £1m investment is being offset by the sale of older accommodation within the resort to a private buyer, The Herald reports.

Ms Johnston added: “The main worry for us is the whole workforce thing with the immigration policy.

“You have to wonder what else is going to hit the hospitality industry, with talk about expanding the tourism tax while business rates are already taking a big chunk out of what we can re-invest in our product and pay to the people who are the foundation of our business.”