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Tourism HR Canada Tourism HR Canada is a national organization working with stakeholders to identify and address labour market issues in the Canadian tourism sector.

Tourism HR Canada is a national organization working to identify and address labour market issues in the Canadian tourism sector. Its main goals include improving the quality and mobility of the tourism workforce and supplying tourism businesses with the labour market intelligence they need to plan for and overcome their current and future human resource challenges. Tourism HR Canada is recognized as a global leader in setting occupational standards, building competency frameworks, developing occupational training and certification programs under the emerit brand, conducting research into the tourism labour market, and analyzing the resulting data to plan and implement HR strategies for the industry. In addition, Tourism HR Canada performs consulting services for all sectors in occupational training and instructional design, assessment tools and certification programs, human resource planning and strategy, and labour market research and analysis. Our team has worked with private companies, educational organizations, professional associations, and all levels of government, both in Canada and internationally.

Introducing Daisy! Whether you’re hiring, developing talent, teaching, or exploring your next career, Daisy can help you...
10/22/2026

Introducing Daisy! Whether you’re hiring, developing talent, teaching, or exploring your next career, Daisy can help you turn skills into opportunities.

With 450+ tourism competencies and interactive, AI-enabled tools, Daisy makes it easier to understand job expectations, identify skills gaps, map career pathways, and support workforce development.

Discover how Daisy can help strengthen Canada’s tourism workforce.

Meet Daisy here: TourismHR.ca/Daisy

We’re getting prepped to pilot our new accreditation program! The National Pro-Abilities Employer Program will recognize...
10/19/2026

We’re getting prepped to pilot our new accreditation program!

The National Pro-Abilities Employer Program will recognize disability-inclusive tourism workplaces across Canada.

We're currently seeking reviewers to assess applications from businesses wishing to become accredited. Interested individuals should have some combination of:

• Experience in developing inclusive workplaces
• Knowledge of inclusive workplace best practices and approaches
• Experience in program or workplace assessment and evaluation
• Knowledge of Canada’s tourism industry

Get all the details here: TourismHR.ca/Reviewer

Tourism employment has hit its annual fall shift. 🍁The latest Labour Force Survey shows a decrease of 7% from the previo...
10/16/2026

Tourism employment has hit its annual fall shift. 🍁

The latest Labour Force Survey shows a decrease of 7% from the previous month. Over 162,000 people left work in tourism between August and September, as students returned to school and seasonal operators wound down.

The unemployment rate in tourism rose to 5.3%, but remained below the economy-wide average of 6.2% (calculated using seasonally unadjusted data).

Tourism’s share of all employment in Canada shrank to 10.2%.

For youth, that percentage also decreased, but it was still a strong 25.6%.

Get the full scoop, including industry group and provincial stats, unemployment rates, part-time vs full-time employment, and hours worked in our latest Labour Force Survey Snapshot. 🔍

Find it here: TourismHR.ca/Snapshot 🔗

Hiring a post-secondary student for a co-op or internship can benefit your business—and nurture talent. 🌱Specially desig...
10/09/2026

Hiring a post-secondary student for a co-op or internship can benefit your business—and nurture talent. 🌱

Specially designed to support tourism operations of all shapes and sizes, the Propel Student Work Placement Program offers wage subsidies for hosting work-integrated learning placements.

Students can be from any field of study, from business to the arts, IT to HR.

Plus: students get free access to Emerit online courses to help with onboarding.

Applications for fall and winter are open! Learn who qualifies and how to apply at our next webinar, taking place Thursday, October 15, at 1 p.m. Eastern.

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mxV-aq9UQvK5tJ6ZRuC47g #/registration

Join us in Ottawa for the Belong Forward Leadership Forum!Bringing together tourism employers, industry associations, se...
10/09/2026

Join us in Ottawa for the Belong Forward Leadership Forum!

Bringing together tourism employers, industry associations, service providers, funders, and community partners, this event will celebrate Belong's cross-Canada impact and explore what’s next for building a more inclusive tourism workforce.

Together, we’ll reflect on lessons learned, identify ongoing workforce challenges, and develop recommendations for future programs, supports, and partnerships.

Where: Ottawa Conference and Event Centre
When: October 28, 2026
Cost: Free, but registration is required

Seats are limited—don’t miss this opportunity to help shape the future of workforce inclusion in tourism!

Register by October 14: https://qrco.de/bh3HgO

Canada’s workforce is changing, and no single sector can navigate that change alone.Today, Tourism HR Canada joins the N...
10/07/2026

Canada’s workforce is changing, and no single sector can navigate that change alone.

Today, Tourism HR Canada joins the National Sectoral Workforce Development Councils and workforce leaders from across the country in Ottawa for the inaugural National Workforce Leadership Summit, bringing together industry, government, educators, and workforce partners to examine shared priorities, including workforce resilience, AI adoption, skills development, and labour mobility.

For more than 30 years, workforce development councils have helped employers, governments, and partners build the talent pipelines Canada’s economy depends on. Representing industries that employ roughly half of Canada’s workforce, we believe the challenges ahead, from shifting skill requirements to emerging technologies, call for coordinated, cross-sector solutions, not isolated ones.

Tourism HR Canada is proud to stand alongside colleagues from manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, electricity, mining, biotechnology, and beyond in this work.

Learn more about the National Sectoral Workforce Development Councils and our shared priorities at WorkforceCouncils.ca

*Nominations close tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6!*Help shape the future of Canada’s tourism workforce. 🧭 Tourism HR Canad...
10/05/2026

*Nominations close tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6!*

Help shape the future of Canada’s tourism workforce. 🧭

Tourism HR Canada is currently accepting nominations for our Board of Directors.

We’re seeking passionate leaders who want to contribute their expertise to setting strategic leadership, overseeing organizational performance and financial stewardship, ensuring legal and ethical compliance, and acting in the best interests of the organization and its mission.

If you’re committed to growing a resilient, competitive, and inclusive tourism workforce, we’d love to hear from you.

Successful nominees will be voted onto the Board by our membership at our AGM in December.

Learn more and download the application form: TourismHR.ca/Nominations

Connect your business with post-secondary students ready to contribute fresh ideas and gain real-world skills. Propel pr...
10/01/2026

Connect your business with post-secondary students ready to contribute fresh ideas and gain real-world skills.

Propel provides generous wage subsidies to host work-integrated learning placements: co-ops, internships, and more.

Both fall and winter applications are now being accepted! 🍁 ❄️

Get all the details at our next webinar, Thursday, October 15, at 1 P.M. Eastern.

Visit PropelCareers.ca 🔗






Today, we pause to honour Residential School Survivors, their families, and their communities, and to remember the child...
09/30/2026

Today, we pause to honour Residential School Survivors, their families, and their communities, and to remember the children who never returned home.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a time to listen, learn, and reflect on the truths and lasting impacts of the residential school system—and on our shared responsibility to move reconciliation forward.

We invite our community to join us in listening to Indigenous voices and stories, learning about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, and reflecting on the role each of us can play in building a more respectful, inclusive future.

Learn more at nctr.ca



We're excited to officially introduce Daisy, an AI-powered platform designed to help the sector better understand the sk...
09/28/2026

We're excited to officially introduce Daisy, an AI-powered platform designed to help the sector better understand the skills needed in tourism, manage talent development, and support a strong workforce.

Daisy brings over 450 industry-vetted competencies together with practical workforce tools in one easy-to-navigate digital environment. The platform helps users understand the competencies required for different tourism roles, compare occupations, identify skills gaps, pinpoint training, and map career progression.

Find our full announcement and meet Daisy here: TourismHR.ca/DaisyLaunch



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