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Almost half a decade after the devastation of super typhoon Haiyan in 2013, there is still limited to no published empirical studies that documented and analyzed the role of hospitality and tourism employment on post-disaster recovery of indigenous peoples. This paper provides latest empirical data on hospitality and tourism employment of indigenous people in a post-disaster (post-Haiyan) context in rural-poor indigenous cultural communities in the Philippines. This study identified the various livelihood and employment challenges of the Mamanwa Indigenous peoples following the Haiyan disaster; their employment in the hospitality and tourism industry and its role in rebuilding their families and community; and practice-based recommendations to improve their participation in the hospitality and tourism industry. This study was conducted from November 2018 and April 2019 with five (5) Mamanwa Indigenous peoples who are hospitality and tourism workers in the Sohoton Cave and Natural Bridge Ecopark in the disaster-prone municipality of Basey, Philippines. The overall method utilized in gathering the data for this researcher is ethnography. The researcher deems this method as the suitable method in gathering data for this research because it is centered on the role of hospitality and tourism employment vis-a-vis post-disaster recovery of selected Mamanwa indigenous peoples. The livelihood of the Mamanwas circulate around handicraft-making, livestock raising, and farming which includes planting rice, root crops (e.g. sweet potatoes, cassava), and other plants used in making uway, banig, kaing, duyan, and baskets. They also sell handicrafts and raise animals such as pigs, ducks, and chickens. Since Mamanwa-s livelihoods are centered and dependent, they have limited job opportunities in their relocation site. Disasters exacerbate the vulnerability of indigenous peoples and the informants admitted that their lives in their current settlement is more difficult compared to their condition when they were still in the hinterlands but because of their intention to give their children formal education as well as relative access to other basic social services, they communally chose to stay in the relocation site. Limited to absent livelihood projects and programs are provided to these indigenous peoples. Livelihood options of indigenous peoples in their relocation site is limited to subsistence handicraft production with meager income. Mamanwas were employed as a daily-wage laborer of the Community Association that operate the Sohoton Cave and Natural Bridge in Basey. This employment helps augment their household income and support the daily needs of their families. However, and despite this opportunity, informants still experience varying forms of discrimination in their larger community and from some of their customers. There is a need to implement livelihood and enterprise development projects to help indigenous peoples, especially to those who suffered fro