Tourism HR Canada is seeking participants for various activities to update our Emerit Certification Programs for Supervisors and for Event Managers. Who are we looking for? We are actively recruiting 10 to 15 Supervisors and 10 to 15 Event Managers from different regions across Canada, who have diverse experience and who work in a variety […]
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The Government of Canada is adapting to current labour market conditions by extending and modifying measures in the TFW Program Workforce Solutions Road Map, launched in April 2022. These measures, which were set to expire on October 30, 2023, have been extended and are now in effect until August 30, 2024. Measures include: The seven sectors are:
Tourism HR Canada is partnering with the Conference Board of Canada to conduct a series of in-person focus groups over the next few weeks. This is part of a labour projection exercise, aimed at identifying the employment pressure points that the tourism sector is currently facing, and those that are likely to become serious issues
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End-of-Summer Drop in Tourism Employment and Labour Force Overall, the tourism sector[1] in September saw a contraction over the previous month[2], with both labour force and employment falling by over 5%. This is not surprising given the summer peak had ended and much of the seasonal workforce had left the sector, including students returning to
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Newest signatory to the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge taking meaningful, measurable steps to implement and support sustainable practices FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (OTTAWA, ON—October 4, 2023) Tourism HR Canada today demonstrated its commitment to sustainability by signing the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge. The organization will increase its sustainability performance each year, through to 2030, using an
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Tourism Sector Stumbles into August Outside of the pandemic-dominated years, the labour force in August has tended to fluctuate between a slight increase or a slight decrease over the previous month, with changes typically within ±3%. This August, the tourism sector[1] saw a slight drop relative to July[2], with a larger fall in employment than
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Working with the Conference Board of Canada, Tourism HR Canada has updated its employment projections in tourism, and extended the envelope of projection out to 2027. The newly released Projections of Tourism Employment in Canada (2019-2027) focuses primarily on job demand stemming from the business perspective (demand side), but also includes some discussion of labour
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It can be hard for the tourism sector to get much traction in the public mind. Partly it’s that the industries that comprise tourism are so diverse that it’s hard to ‘see’ them as a unified whole. Partly it’s that when economists and statisticians talk about the labour market as a whole, only two of
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Labour Market Stays Strong as Summer Comes into Season Summer is a peak season for tourism in Canada (with the obvious exception of winter pursuits), and as the season heats up, it is in encouraging to see the labour market for the sector staying strong. Overall, the tourism sector[1] in July saw consistent improvement over
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On August 8, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Official Languages, announced the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Recognized Employer Pilot (REP). This three-year initiative is intended to help employers address current labour shortages across many sectors and occupations, create greater stability in the economy, and build a stronger Canadian workforce for
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