Supervisors, Managers Needed to Enhance Key Tourism Resource

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…

Enhancing the Outdoor Industry’s Workforce Resiliency: Project Elevation

Tourism HR Canada is excited to collaborate with the Outdoor Council of Canada (OCC) on Project Elevation, an initiative to increase the workforce resiliency of the outdoor industry in Alberta by enhancing the professionalism, skills, and standards of the outdoor…

Shape the Next Generation of Certification

Join us for industry consultations to develop Tourism HR Canada’s Emerit Micro-Certification Exams. Tourism HR Canada is looking for Line Cooks, Chefs, Sous Chefs, and cooking instructors/educators from anywhere in Canada for a unique opportunity to collaborate on the creation…

Impact of Digitalization on Tourism Jobs: Do We Still Need People?

The COVID pandemic has accelerated the impact of digitalization on tourism, and significant changes to business models and operational needs have triggered major workforce shifts. COVID has demonstrated the need for digitalization to help businesses be more resilient and able…

Invitation to Identify Future Skills Needs

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…

Join Industry Consultations to Set New Canadian Tourism Standards

Tourism HR Canada is extremely grateful for all the industry professionals who have shared insights into their occupations over the past few months, enabling us to build new occupational standards using the Future Skills Framework. The framework and these standards…

Feed Into the Tourism Future Skills Framework

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…

Levelling Up: Join New Future Skills Validation Phase

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…

Join Us in Framing Tourism’s Future

Can you help us complete the validation of our new pan-Canadian tourism standards? Tourism HR Canada has worked with experts from across Canada over the past two years to build the Future Skills Framework: a comprehensive set of competencies for…

Help Guide Tourism’s Future

Can you help us complete the validation of our new pan-Canadian tourism standards? Tourism HR Canada has worked with experts from across Canada over the past two years to build the Future Skills Framework: a comprehensive set of competencies for…

Feed into Pan-Canadian Standards for Cooking

Tourism HR Canada is continuing to work with experts from across Canada to build the Future Skills Framework: a comprehensive set of competencies for our sector. To make sure these reflect today’s tourism workplaces, we’ve held dozens of consultation sessions…

Calling Adventure Guides and Travel Services Experts to Build A Stronger Tourism Sector

Tourism HR Canada has continued building the Future Skills Framework, a federally funded three-year project compiling a comprehensive bank of the competencies required in tourism. For a set of online sessions to be held from September 21 to October 1,…