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Encouraging Academic Excellence: Tourism Students Invited to Apply for Two Awards

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As part of its efforts to foster growth and innovation in tourism, Tourism HR Canada is delighted to sponsor the Master’s Researcher Award, coordinated by the Tourism and Travel Research Association – Canada Chapter (TTRA Canada). This award is to encourage and recognize excellence in—and the usefulness of—research on travel and tourism at the Master’s […]

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Forward Thinkers: TTRA Welcoming Conference Submissions on Impactful Tourist Experiences

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The Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Canada Chapter hosts its annual conference this year from September 18-20 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Moving Forward, this year’s conference theme, invites tourism researchers to be forward thinkers—to rediscover Canada’s tourism industry through various lenses that acknowledge the past while providing guidance for our future. Moving Forward calls for

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Canadian Tourism Employment Monthly Snapshot – May 2019

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(seasonally unadjusted) In May 2019, the unemployment rate1 in the tourism sector was at 5.4%, which is 0.9% higher than the rate reported in May 2018, but lower than the previous month (April 2019), when the unemployment rate stood at 5.5%. At 5.4%, tourism’s unemployment rate was below Canada’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 5.5%.

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Living Water Resorts “Humbled” to Receive Tourism HR Canada’s Distinguished HR Service Award

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Tourism HR Canada is delighted to honour a leader in positive human resource practices. Living Water Resorts accepted our Distinguished HR Service Award, presented as part of Canada’s Tourism Week. The Collingwood, Ontario, property has a long history of valuing its staff and implementing progressive, supportive HR policies. In early February, it demonstrated leadership and

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Growing Competition for Mature Workers: Latest Census Profile Available

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Released today, the latest demographic profile of tourism workers unveils the most recent census data on mature workers employed in tourism. The profile looks at workers aged 45 and up, breaking key employment information into three groups: ages 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 and up. While these age brackets have generally been

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Exploring Emerging Skills: Future Skills Framework Team Hosts Civility Focus Group

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Subject matter experts in the growing field of civility gathered in Toronto earlier this month to share information and explore ideas and needs towards building the Future Skills Framework. Hosted by Tourism HR Canada and Civility Experts Worldwide Inc., the focus group is part of a process aimed at identifying and building the key competencies

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New Federal Tourism Growth Strategy Addresses Skills and Labour Challenges

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Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, announced a bold new Federal Tourism Growth Strategy. With extensive input from tourism stakeholders across Canada, Creating Middle Class Jobs: A Federal Tourism Growth Strategy builds on the sector’s tireless work that has led to back-to-back record-breaking years for international visitation and

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More Than Meets the Eye: Impact of Labour Legislation, Minimum Wage Increases

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The intense and varied reactions to several provinces and territories raising their minimum wages in recent years provided ongoing media fodder and much speculation on the outcomes, both short and long term. In late 2017, Ontario passed new legislation (the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, also known as Bill 148) that changed a number of

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Need Help Planning Labour Strategies? New Data Added to Rapid reSearch

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To provide a full picture of the tourism labour market, Tourism HR Canada regularly acquires customized tabulations for five datasets. We then analyze and share this information with a wide range of stakeholders to help develop plans and policies that support our sector’s labour needs. Making this information relevant, useful, and easy to understand is

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Canadian Tourism Employment Monthly Snapshot – April 2019

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(seasonally unadjusted) In April 2019, the unemployment rate1 in the tourism sector was at 5.5%, which is 0.4% higher than the rate reported in April 2018, but lower than the previous month (March 2019), when the unemployment rate stood at 6.0%. At 5.5%, tourism’s unemployment rate was below Canada’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 5.9%.

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