By Joe Baker, Tourism HR Canada Board Member and OTEC Strategic Advisor Originally published in Canadian Lodging News People have always been the core of Canada’s hospitality and tourism industry. While the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating economic effect on our businesses, it has had an equally profound impact on the lives of the […]
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Adapting to New Market Realities – Products, Pricing, Placement, Positioning, the fourth in a new series of free webinars designed for business owners, operators, and entrepreneurs, is now available for viewing. With a focus on marketing and communications, this webinar will help small businesses revisit business strategies to align products and services with new and
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Tourism HR Canada is honoured and delighted to announce that Philip Mondor, President and CEO, is the proud recipient of the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Industry Award 2020. The award is presented in recognition of significant support for the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University. Specifically,
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In October, tourism employment decreased by 70,400 jobs, ending five months of tourism employment recovery. Tourism employment usually decreases in October, but since 2001 the average decrease in employment between September and October has been a mere 0.8%. This year, employment decreased by 4.1%. There were 375,800 fewer people employed in tourism than there were
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Tourism HR Canada has now held over 50 sessions with industry professionals from across the country to review individual skills—or competencies—required across tourism, as part of the Future Skills Framework project. We now have a fully validated framework, marking an important milestone in the project. These individual competencies will be the ‘building blocks’ for a
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Results from new national research indicate that 90% of Canadian LGBT+ travellers intend to travel domestically this year amidst international travel uncertainty. This represents a $12 billion leisure travel opportunity for a tourism sector devastated by COVID-19. Is your business market-ready? Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce and Tourism HR Canada are eager to help you
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Building Strategic Community Partnerships, the third in a new series of free webinars designed for business owners, operators, and entrepreneurs, is now available for viewing. Tourism’s revival and growth is dependent on the ability of tourism businesses to engage in community-led strategies. This webinar looks at how to harness resources to create a destination that
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced enormous change on the Canadian economy with very little advance warning. New protocols and restrictions were put into place to slow the spread of the deadly virus. Since COVID-19 closed international borders, Canada’s tourism numbers have reduced drastically. The pandemic has had a massive impact on the tourism sector and its
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Commissioned by Tourism HR Canada and produced by Statistics Canada, the Tourism Human Resource Module (previously the Provincial-Territorial Human Resource Module), provides statistics on the number of full-year jobs in the tourism sector. This information will provide an important benchmark against which to study our sector during the COVID-19 era. The most recent update of
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Last Thursday, Statistics Canada released the latest data on monthly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by industry. The data for August 2020 showed that total economic activity in Canada had recovered, but was not yet back at pre-pandemic levels. The following analysis uses the January 2020 GDP level as the base against which to compare all
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