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When disaster or tragedy strike, local businesses are often eager to assist, providing help with immediate needs and ongoing healing. Tourism and hospitality businesses are particularly well poised to make an impact, as accommodation and food are often two urgent necessities for those affected and for emergency services personnel and volunteers. After April’s tragic Humboldt […]

In this, the fourth installment of “milestone” articles celebrating our 25 years as the voice of the tourism labour market, we look at programs that have provided thousands of Canadians with the entry-to-practice skills training required to work in a variety of tourism operations. The first national program focused on preparing unemployed and underemployed Canadian

Annually, Tourism HR Canada brings together 60 or more industry representatives from across Canada from all tourism sectors. This year’s event was held in Ottawa in March, with the heads of national associations, employers, academia, senior representatives from the provincial/territorial tourism human resource organizations, various interest groups, and government officials participating in two days focused

Improve coordination on labour market research and analysis, building on existing initiatives and avoiding duplication. Forum participants identified labour market research and analysis as imperative to the sector’s success. Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) supports Tourism HR Canada’s labour market research initiatives, recognizing them as one of Canada’s “foundational labour market forecasting systems”. This

Earlier this month, the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and Tourism HR Canada (THRC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that leverages the strengths of both national organizations to better meet the needs of tourism operators and employers across the country. TIAC brings its proven track record as a strong advocate of Canadian tourism

(seasonally unadjusted) In March 2018, the unemployment rate1 in the tourism sector was at 6.4%, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than the rate reported in March 2017, and higher than the previous month (February 2018), when the unemployment rate stood at 5.6%. At 6.4%, tourism’s unemployment rate was above Canada’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate

Tourism HR Canada recently commissioned a series of questions as part of the Hotel Association of Canada’s travel intentions survey. This was an online survey of 1527 Canadians who stayed in a hotel in Canada in 2017. We were interested in Canadians’ thoughts on: The importance of service Whether service quality had increased or decreased