In a report on travel destination trends for LGBTQ2 travel in 2019, Travel Pulse selected just one Canadian city in its ‘top 30’ destinations: Montreal. While the recognition does represent a foothold into this burgeoning market, a new initiative aims…
By 2032, immigrants will be responsible for 100% of Canada’s population growth. Today, without immigration, Canada’s labour force would be shrinking, as the number individuals retiring is greater than the number of school leavers entering the labour force. Under such…
By Joe Baker, Dean, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Centennial College According to Tourism HR Canada, tourism is a $90 billion industry that employs over 1.8 million workers, outpacing many other industries in the country. As Canada’s share…
By the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) ITAC, in partnership with Tourism HR Canada, is looking to develop a nation-wide Indigenous tourism standards recognition program, entitled RISE. The goal of this project will be to support Indigenous tourism businesses…
Tourism HR Canada regularly provides tourism stakeholders with new information on the labour force. A key data source is the Canadian census, which contains highly detailed information on the demographic makeup of the people who staff jobs in the industry….
October has seen two consultation meetings for the Future Skills Framework, marking its progression from establishing the framework’s overall structure to developing in-depth, specific industry competencies. The three-year Future Skills initiative will produce a comprehensive and sustainable collection of competencies…
As part of several pan-Canadian projects focused on providing Canada’s tourism sector with a continuum of market readiness programming, Tourism HR Canada will be working with Twenty31 and Alphabet Creative to update and enhance its Business Builders series. Designed for…
Article courtesy of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada The Rise Project, spearheaded by the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) and Tourism HR Canada, will embark upon updating and transforming ITAC’s National Guidelines into a standards-based recognition framework for…
(seasonally unadjusted) In September 2019, the unemployment rate1 in the tourism sector was at 4.5%, which is 0.2 percentage points lower than the rate reported in September 2018, and lower than the previous month (August 2019), when the unemployment rate…
Over 80 members of Canada’s tourism research community recently gathered to network and learn about the latest tourism research from statisticians, academics, students, and destination marketers. The thought-provoking Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Canada Chapter Conference was held September…
Tourism stakeholders continue to bring real-world guidance to the Future Skills Framework, a three-year initiative to create a comprehensive and sustainable collection of competencies and essential skills for the tourism sector. Sixteen industry experts from across Canada gathered in Ottawa,…
Now into its second year, the national Destination Employment program continues to successfully help newcomers acquire the knowledge and experience they need to gain meaningful employment in Canada. The program provides skills and language training to newcomers to Canada in…
