Labour Market Information

Tourism HR Canada has been tracking the impacts of COVID on the tourism workforce, and the fallout on GDP and consumer confidence. Other research in collaboration with the Conference Board focuses on labour projections: by sector, by region, and more. Tourism is facing staggering employment losses that far exceed the overall economy, and projections suggest […]

Nearly 90% of Year-Over-Year Employment Losses in Tourism Tourism employment decreased for the third month in a row in December, falling by 56,700, a 3.5% decrease from November. (Data is from the week of December 6 to 12.) Tourism employment decreased in all provinces except in Quebec, where employment essentially flat, increasing by a miniscule

Tourism jobs are defined by two numbers and both are from Statistics Canada—so why the two numbers and how is there a difference of over a million jobs? The first number, 747,950, is based on tourism demand; in other words, it’s based on visitor spending. This number comes from the National Tourism Indicators (NTI), which

Tourism employment decreased for the second month in a row in November, falling by 34,400 jobs, a 2.1% decrease from October. (Data is from the week of November 8 to 14.) Unlike last month, when employment losses were concentrated in Quebec, most provinces saw a loss of tourism employment in November. The greatest loss occurred

Although labour is not at the forefront of many agendas right now—where liquidity and financial relief must remain the priority since they are the lifeline keeping businesses open—the fact is that the workforce is a monumental and complex challenge that will soon take centre stage. Prior to the World Health Organization announcing the pandemic in

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

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

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

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

The closing of businesses has hit the tourism sector particularly hard, and the recovery has not been as strong as in other industries. Statistics Canada tracks the number of businesses opening, closing, and remaining active.[1] Closing businesses are those that had at least one employee in the previous month, but no employees in the current