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Tourism Labour Action Plan for 2018: Action 2

Improve coordination on labour market research and analysis, building on existing initiatives and avoiding duplication. Forum participants identified labour market research and analysis as imperative to the sector’s success. Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) supports Tourism HR Canada’s labour market research initiatives, recognizing them as one of Canada’s “foundational labour market forecasting systems”. This […]

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Tourism Labour Action Plan for 2018: Action 3

Reinforce the priority of the development and engagement of an Indigenous workforce; focus on seeking resources to launch a comprehensive strategy. The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) has been working with Tourism HR Canada for two years, singularly focused on mounting a pan-Canadian strategy aimed at increasing the number of well paying, sustainable Indigenous

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Tourism Labour Action Plan for 2018: Action 4

Develop more strategies to inform policy and programs aimed at helping the sector address labour market shortages. The success of the industry is contingent on addressing longstanding labour and skills issues. Tourism, like many other industries, is finding it increasingly difficult to find and retain qualified workers, and the challenge extends beyond Canada. Despite record

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New Memorandum of Understanding with TIAC Signals Growing Partnership

Earlier this month, the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and Tourism HR Canada (THRC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that leverages the strengths of both national organizations to better meet the needs of tourism operators and employers across the country. TIAC brings its proven track record as a strong advocate of Canadian tourism

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Statistics

Canadian Tourism Employment Monthly Snapshot – March 2018

(seasonally unadjusted) In March 2018, the unemployment rate1 in the tourism sector was at 6.4%, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than the rate reported in March 2017, and higher than the previous month (February 2018), when the unemployment rate stood at 5.6%. At 6.4%, tourism’s unemployment rate was above Canada’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate

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Groundbreaking Work on Tourism Labour Market Intelligence

In this, the third installment of “milestone” articles we’re publishing to celebrate our 25th anniversary, we shine the spotlight on the origins of our research and labour market work, specifically the development of the national Total Tourism Sector Employment report. When Tourism HR Canada released the inaugural Total Tourism Sector Employment report in 1998, it

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New Online Tool Simplifies and Customizes Labour Market Research

Designed to improve access to tourism labour market information, the newly launched Rapid reSearch allows anyone to search several of Tourism HR Canada’s labour market datasets using a simple interface. For many years, Tourism HR Canada has acquired customized tabulations of datasets. This has provided us with a full picture of the tourism labour market

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Unpacking 12 New Strategies to Help Tourism Employers Address Labour Shortages

Tourism operators are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain workers. Over the past 17 years, 100,000 jobs were unfilled. These were advertised positions for which tourism employers were unable to find workers, and despite demand, business expansions never occurred because they lacked the workers to deliver on the services. These vacancies accounted for

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