Labour Market Information
Tourism HR Canada is the trusted source for data, analysis, and recommendations on the tourism workforce. Through comprehensive research, the organization maintains the foundational labour market information system necessary to help minimize labour and skills imbalances, while ensuring that Canada’s tourism sector remains globally competitive and innovative.
Report Catalogue
Your gateway to essential labour market intelligence: Gain insights into employment trends, in-demand skills, wages, and labour market conditions. This interactive catalogue supports informed decision-making by providing easy access to reliable, up-to-date labour market reports.
Tourism Employment Tracker
The Tourism Employment Tracker offers monthly insights on the tourism labour market across Canada, using Statistics Canada data to highlight workforce trends and shifts. Explore dozens of interactive graphs tracking employment, unemployment, GDP, business openings and closures, mobility, and other economic indicators–in the tourism sector, in its five industry groups, and in the overall economy.
Tourism Facts
2 million
People working in a tourism industry
620,025
Jobs attributed to tourism spending
1,578,060
Jobs in tourism industries
Rapid reSearch Tool
Designed to improve access to tourism labour market information, Rapid reSearch allows anyone to search several of Tourism HR Canada’s labour market datasets using a simple interactive interface.
Tourism is not a discrete unit in the systems that measure economic activity. It is an amalgam of 29 industries that are found across the economy. Because of this, most publicly available datasets—such as the census, labour force survey, and business counts—do not present data on tourism.
For many years, Tourism HR Canada has acquired customized tabulations of these datasets. This provides us with a picture of the tourism labour market, and allows us to share this information. Rapid reSearch makes it easy for you to search our customized datasets directly.
Rapid reSearch is available free of charge on our Emerit website. Sign up for an account today to access detailed labour supply and demand data by occupation and by region.
Labour Force Survey
Tourism-specific Labour Force Survey data is provided to help monitor monthly employment trends in the tourism sector.
Census: Who Works in Tourism?
Discover how Canada’s 2021 census reveals tourism’s early rebound from COVID-19. Uncover key labour trends and insights that shape the sector’s future.
Tourism Human Resource Module
Developed by Statistics Canada, the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a world-leading economic account of tourism activity which highlights the economic activity recorded in the System of National Accounts that relates to tourism.
Federal Ridings Map
Explore the number of tourism employees and businesses, and their percentage of the total economy, for any or all 338 federal ridings in Canada.
Labour Market Forum
The Labour Market Forum is a two-day working event. Over 80 participants from across the country are invited to participate because of their knowledge, expertise, and commitment towards addressing workforce challenges. They contribute to Tourism HR Canada’s mission to build a resilient, competitive, and inclusive workforce.