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SMART + Designation Recognizes Centennial College’s Commitment to Innovation

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The global-oriented Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Management graduate certificate program offered by Centennial College’s School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts has been awarded SMART + Premium accreditation from Tourism HR Canada. SMART is a flexible and inclusive accreditation program that responds to the identified needs of program providers, learners, and industry alike. It is […]

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Last Call for Free LGBT+ Market-Ready Certification

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March is the final month to access the LGBT+ Market-Ready certificate free of charge. LGBT+ travellers represent a major opportunity for recovery for our Canadian tourism industry. They outspend their mainstream counterparts at 7x the average trip expense. They rebound faster after industry shocks, being among the first segment to recover post-9/11 and SARS. And

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Invitation to Identify Future Skills Needs

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Tourism HR Canada is gathering input from employers, Indigenous representatives, and students to inform the launch of our pan-Canadian Tourism Competency Framework. We are currently developing a Future Skills Competency Framework tool to help businesses, job-seekers, and industry professionals in the tourism sector. Feedback will help to ensure the Future Skills Competency Framework will best

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Labour Market Forum March 15-18, 2021

Registration Opens for Labour Market Forum

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Registration is open for Tourism HR Canada’s annual Labour Market Forum, a free, virtual event to help create a more resilient and inclusive labour market. Now in its fifth year, this premier event offers Canada’s tourism sector a unique opportunity to collaborate on improving workforce strategies, resources, and the capacity to implement them. Tourism businesses,

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Ongoing Tourism Job Losses Will Impede Recovery Efforts

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Employment in both tourism and the broader economy fell significantly in January. The seasonally adjusted data reports employment in Canada dropping by 213,000, while the unadjusted (which we use to compare overall employment to tourism) shows a much steeper loss of almost half a million. Tourism employment decreased for the fifth month in a row,

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Help Shape the Post-COVID Future of Tourism & Hospitality

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We need your input to help shape the future of our post-pandemic tourism and hospitality workforce. As we reflect on the devastating and lasting effect that COVID-19 has had on our industry, we must also look forward to the future resiliency of our workforce. How will the landscape change post-pandemic? How will we attract and

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Government Launches Budget Consultations to Hear from Canadians

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Finance Canada has launched the Government of Canada’s annual Pre-Budget Consultations, ahead of Budget 2021. This process invites all Canadians to share their ideas and what matters most to them, to inform and guide Canada’s growth plan and feed into the measures and investments that will make up Budget 2021. When COVID-19 is under control, the

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Has COVID Affected Canadians’ Perceptions of Tourism?

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In 2017, Tourism HR Canada published the results of a survey asking Canadians about their perceptions of the tourism sector as a place of work. It showed that Canadians viewed many aspects of tourism positively, but held negative views as well. Many respondents had positive perceptions of tourism and would recommend it as a place

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