Tourism HR Canada

Celebrating Tourism Week in Canada: A Tribute to the People Behind the Experiences

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Tourism Week in Canada is a time to shine a spotlight on one of our country’s most vibrant and people-driven industries. At the heart of tourism is a dynamic, diverse, two-million-strong workforce whose passion and dedication create memorable experiences for visitors from around the world. It’s people who bring Canada’s landscapes, cities, and stories to […]

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Free eLearning: Navigating Inclusive Tourism Workplaces

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Helping You Build IDEAL Workplaces—Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, and Leading Tourism HR Canada is thrilled to announce the launch of Navigating Inclusive Tourism Workplaces eLearning, a dynamic new skill-building opportunity under the Belong project. This eight-module online course has been thoughtfully designed to encourage, support, and strengthen inclusion across Canada’s tourism sector, ensuring workplaces are

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Focus Group Members Wanted: Workplace Policies for Substance Use in Tourism

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Firsthand experience and insight are important in creating quality workplace resources and policies. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), on behalf of Tourism HR Canada, is conducting focus group discussions with people who work in tourism (including accommodations, food and beverage services, recreation and entertainment, transportation, travel services, and event management) about

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Beyond Barriers: Insights into Tourism Workplace Disability Inclusion

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As part of its Belong initiative, Tourism HR Canada has conducted a range of research activities to provide a foundation for understanding individuals with disabilities in the tourism workforce, and to offer tailored recommendations to create accessible, inclusive workplaces and recruitment practices. A robust year-long process has included the collection and analysis of surveys and

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Propel Launches Fifth Year with New Success Stories

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Tourism HR Canada is delighted to announce that the Propel Student Work Placement Program is launching its fifth year of supporting the growth of a vibrant and skilled tourism sector. The program plays a vital role in linking post-secondary students and tourism employers, building talent and encouraging the exploration of tourism career opportunities. Thanks to funding

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Pulling Together: The Productivity and Skills Agenda

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Over the past three years, Tourism HR Canada’s research team has been closely monitoring and studying the shifting dynamics of the tourism workforce as the sector continues its post-COVID recovery. This work has involved a number of parallel and concurrent research activities, including: We have been publishing reports on these activities regularly throughout the past

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Advancing Event Management Careers with Emerit

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Tourism HR Canada, under its renowned Emerit brand, is proud to announce two programs designed to support and advance the careers of event professionals: Event Management eLearning and Event Manager Professional Certification. These innovative programs provide industry-relevant training and recognition to help professionals excel in the dynamic world of event management. Event Management eLearning: Comprehensive

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Small and Mighty: Implications of Tourism Business Sizes

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In December 2023[1], tourism businesses made up 6% of all businesses in Canada, employed 9.9% of all working Canadians, and accounted for around 3.8% of the national GDP (of which around 1.6 percentage points were attributable to tourism spending, and the remaining 2.2 to local customers). Tourism is big business by whichever metric you prefer,

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Destination Canada & Tourism HR Canada Partner to Improve Tourism Workforce Data

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Canada’s tourism sector relies on timely, meaningful insights into employment data to help to secure the skilled, diverse workforce needed to strengthen Canada’s place as a top-tier global destination. Two of the country’s leading providers of tourism intelligence, Destination Canada and Tourism HR Canada, have announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that builds on

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