Employers can receive a wage subsidy of up to 75 per cent, up to a max of $7,500 With the winter semester quickly approaching, now is the time to start planning your winter and spring employment strategy—and Tourism HR Canada has a way to help! Many businesses across the country have been facing labour challenges […]
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Destination Inclusion, a new skills development initiative announced in the September 15 edition of Tourism HR Insider, has now commenced and is gaining momentum. Coordinated in conjunction with partners World Skills Employment Centre and the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO), this program offers learning and mentorship opportunities to racialized individuals in communities across Eastern Ontario. A new,
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Tourism employers can receive a wage subsidy of up to 75 percent, up to a max of $7,500 The Canadian tourism sector remains in a critical state. More than 18 months into the pandemic, the industry still has not recovered; international tourists are trickling in, labour challenges remain high, and various regions have experienced rolling
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Employment across the economy often drops slightly in September. On average, between 2010 and 2019, seasonally unadjusted employment declined by 151,300 in September. This year, seasonally unadjusted employment increased by 34,300 individuals. Since the number of employed workers usually decreases, this small gain translated into a significant jump in employment when seasonal adjustments were added.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted a number of industries across the country, and the tourism & hospitality industry is near, if not at the top of, that list. The challenge now is how to address the labour crisis this industry is facing. CEWIL Canada, the lead organization for work-integrated learning in Canada, has a weekly
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The Canadian Tourism Awards are presented annually by the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) to recognize success, leadership, and innovation in Canada’s tourism industry–rewarding those people, places, organizations, and events that have gone above and beyond to offer travellers superior tourism experiences in Canada. TIAC received just under one-hundred nominations this year across four
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With the border closed, international travel to Canada in the first half of 2021 remained extremely low compared to 2019 (see Figure 1). Because the number of both travellers and tourists was so low, measuring any sort of increase since the pandemic struck requires removing any data from earlier than February 2020, the last month
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The Propel Student Work Placement Program offers tourism and hospitality employers access to up to $7,500 in wage subsidies when they hire a post-secondary student for work-integrated learning: an internship, a co-op placement, a work experience placement, and more. The many benefits? Students gain paid hands-on learning and mentoring in their field of study. Employers
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This summer, the tight restrictions on activities that had been put in place during the third wave of COVID-19 were lifted. Although the timing and degree of relaxation varied by province, Canadians were able to travel, go to restaurants, visit museums, and book a hotel room. Although international visitation remained extremely limited, the domestic tourism
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Tomorrow, September 30, will mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours the lost First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children and Survivors of Residential Schools, their families, and their communities. Since May, 6,509 unmarked graves have been found at former Residential School sites, with many more Indigenous children still unaccounted for.
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