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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

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

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

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

Tourism HR Canada is pleased to announce the availability of the third in its series of three labour supply and demand reports. Bottom Line: Bridging the Labour Gap quantifies the effect of strategies that could fill the 240,000-job shortfall in the tourism sector. Specifically, it quantifies the number of jobs that would be filled by:

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