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Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot August 2022 Labour Force Survey data reveals that tourism sector employment and labour force levels declined as Canada’s summer season—a peak period of tourism activity across all five industry groups—came to a close. Overall, the tourism sector saw a month-over-month employment change of -35,200 workers or -1.7% as employment levels […]

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot Tourism employment saw positive gains this July, growing to 2,034,400 workers (representing a month-over-month increase of 106,300 or 5.5%). The sector’s total labour force grew to 2,108,900 (a nearly identical increase of 106,300 or 5.3%). This marks the first time since February 2020 that monthly tourism sector employment has topped

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot Tourism employment declined slightly to 1,928,100—representing a loss of 3,100 workers or -0.2% growth when compared to last month. The sector’s total labour force was reduced to 2,002,600 in June—a decline of 7,400 workers or -0.4%. The tourism unemployment rate for June (3.7%) improved over the previous month (5.1%); however,

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot Overall, tourism employment grew (5.9%) over last month and the unemployment rate improved for all industry groups. There was also significant improvement in the unemployment rate across all industries when compared to the same month in 2019, 2020, and 2021. However, these data are artificially inflated by the decline in

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot Overall, tourism employment grew slightly (2.2%) from March to April and the unemployment rate improved for all industries except for the food & beverage services industry, which saw a slight uptick. Nevertheless, there was significant improvement in the unemployment rate across all industries when compared to the same month in

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot Overall, tourism employment sees an uptick as the sector builds momentum toward recovery in the coming months; however, growth is hindered by employment losses in the accommodations industry and a higher than anticipated unemployment rate in transportation. Labour Force Survey data released for March 2022 showed positive signs toward industry

Canadian Tourism Monthly Snapshot Tourism added 188,700 jobs, unemployment rates fall but an overall labour force shortage remains While declines in the size of the overall tourism labour force persist, tourism employees continued to return to work and find available employment opportunities this past month. Seasonally unadjusted data released for February 2022 shows that, at

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Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey data is from the week of January 9 to 15, 2022. The surge of Omicron over this period led to increased business closures and a loss of 200,000 jobs across the economy (based on seasonally adjusted data; unadjusted data shows a decline of 484,900 jobs from December to January[1]).

Late last week, annual labour force survey data for the tourism sector was released. That data shows the stark, ongoing impact of the pandemic on tourism employment. In 2019, tourism employed almost 2.1 million workers. In 2020, this fell to 1.62 million workers, and only rose 2.2% in 2021. There were 1.66 million tourism employees