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Free eLearning: Navigating Inclusive Tourism Workplaces

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Helping You Build IDEAL Workplaces—Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, and Leading Tourism HR Canada is thrilled to announce the launch of Navigating Inclusive Tourism Workplaces eLearning, a dynamic new skill-building opportunity under the Belong project. This eight-module online course has been thoughtfully designed to encourage, support, and strengthen inclusion across Canada’s tourism sector, ensuring workplaces are […]

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Advancing Event Management Careers with Emerit

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Tourism HR Canada, under its renowned Emerit brand, is proud to announce two programs designed to support and advance the careers of event professionals: Event Management eLearning and Event Manager Professional Certification. These innovative programs provide industry-relevant training and recognition to help professionals excel in the dynamic world of event management. Event Management eLearning: Comprehensive

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New: Supervisor Professional Certification from Emerit

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Tourism professionals can showcase their supervisory skills with a fully revamped Supervisor Professional Certification program from Emerit. Developed with invaluable input from supervisors actively working in a wide range of tourism businesses, this program reflects the current and emerging knowledge and skills needed to succeed as a supervisor. The program entails: Access to the National

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Pathways to Indigenous Market Readiness

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Indigenous tourism continues to grow, with new partnerships and initiatives supporting the promotion of authentic, meaningful experiences across Canada. Domestic and international travellers show increasing interest in partaking in these experiences, and the significance of Indigenous tourism’s role in reconciliation cannot be understated. With this high level of demand, there is ample opportunity for business

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Supervisors, Managers Needed to Enhance Key Tourism Resource

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The Tourism Competency Framework is the sector’s digital library of the knowledge and skills needed for a wide range of tourism occupations. Hosted on the Workforce Management Engine, its competencies are used to develop National Occupational Standards, training resources, and professional certification programs. To ensure it continues to reflect the changing tourism landscape and meet

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Share Your Knowledge of Bartending Skills

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Tourism HR Canada is seeking volunteers to participate in a two-hour virtual meeting to identify and review competencies for our Bartender National Occupational Standards. We take pride in our standards reflecting the latest industry input—and we can’t do this without knowledge and expertise from the field! (What are competencies? They are the skills, knowledge, abilities,

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Pictured left to right: Darlene Grant Fiander, President, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia, and Executive Director, Nova Scotia Tourism Human Resource Council, and Chair of the Tourism HR Canada Board of Directors; Philip Mondor, President and CEO, Tourism HR Canada; Sharon Banfield-Bovell, Director of Resource Mobilization and Development, Caribbean Tourism Organization; and Joe Baker, Tourism HR Canada Board Member and Dean at the Okanagan College School of Business.

Caribbean Tourism Organization and Tourism HR Canada to Strengthen Tourism Workforce

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The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and Tourism HR Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will support and grow a skilled, sustainable tourism workforce in both regions. Announced at the recent Tourism Labor Market Forum held in Ottawa, Canada, the collaborative working relationship builds upon long-established tourism links between the two regions. The

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Event Managers Shape New Certification Exam

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In June, fourteen event managers from across the country met for three days to validate the Event Manager Certification Exam. These professionals generously shared their time and expertise, working hard to update the exam blueprint, review and approve the exam questions, establish the required passmark, and validate the performance evaluation tool. The validation meeting was

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A New Era for Emerit Training and Certification

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Canada’s best tourism training and certification resources have undergone industry-informed enhancements to better serve Canada’s tourism sector. An all-new Emerit online learning platform and a suite of updated programming launches on June 3. This launch arrives on the heels of Destination Canada’s new 2030 Tourism Strategy, aimed at improving Canada’s ranking as a global tourism

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Share Your Insights on Bartending Skills

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Tourism HR Canada is seeking participants for a three-hour virtual meeting to identify and review competencies for our Bartender National Occupational Standards. We take pride in our standards reflecting the latest industry input—and we can’t do this without your knowledge and expertise from the field! Who are we looking for? We are actively recruiting 10-15 bartenders from different regions

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