ASSIGNMENT ON CANADIAN TOURISM INDUSTRY AND LABOR ISSUES.

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ASSIGNMENT ON CANADIAN TOURISM INDUSTRY AND LABOR ISSUES
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Introduction
The importance of tourism industry can be realized by the fact that it contributes highly towards
the growth and development of a country. It works by bringing numerous economic value & benefits in
the country. The country gets a brand value and a strong image by the tourism industry. Tourism means
travelling to different attractive places for leisure or business purposes. It includes sightseeing, staying in
an accommodation, trying various foods, shopping and many other interesting and entertaining activities.
Tourism has given employment to millions of people as it builds the base for the wide scale consumption.
The unique aspect of tourism is that it creates demand for economies on large scale and also by
creating demand and growth opportunities for various communities. When tourists come from different
countries they take back the image and perception of the country with them and share it with people of
their country. It is a commercial activity, the whole process involves consumption of services and
products. Thus bringing a lot of foreign exchange and creating job opportunities for many. It is estimated
that tourism is a billion dollar industry that creates billions of foreign exchange in a country and also
creates millions of job for the local resident. It motivates the country to develop its infrastructure and
reach a global standard (Fang, Ye & Law, 2016).
Sometimes tourism is not easy, countries face a lot of problems in tourism sector. The problems
are due to controllable or uncontrollable factors like labor, cost, terrain, climate and many such elemtes
limiting the growth of tourism sector in the country. Canada has natural beauty, vibrant and safe cities. It
has all the factors for being an attractive international travel destination. But Canada is facing some of
these challenges especially related to labor force (De Grosbois, 2016).
Challenges of Canadian Tourism industry
Human resource is the backbone of the hospitality and tourism sectors. Tourism accounts for 1.8
million jobs across Canada . It allows people of different caste, creed and culture to work together. It
also employees a high number of young people and especially immigrants.

2ASSIGNMENT ON CANADIAN TOURISM INDUSTRY AND LABOR ISSUES
 The problem in tourism sector is that it is not considered as a respected, high opportunity career
by the local Canadian citizens. Although Government has done a lot to changes the scenario in
this sector for attracting more human resource but it is not working. Every year huge number of
jobs gets unstaffed due to scarcity of labor in this sector. In 2018 more than 20,000 jobs went
vacant according to Canadian human staff records (2018).
 It’s a fact that Canada gets a huge amount of immigration applications every year from different
countries. The government of Canada uses the statical data to determine how much immigrants
can be allowed each year regardless of the skill level. This includes both permanent and
temporary immigration for labour solutions. To meet the skill needs of the labour market. Here
the government fails to allow many immigrants due to factors relating to safety of the country,
population statistics and factors of minimum wages. This ultimately affects the labor market
creating a shortage in the tourism sector (Bredvold & Skålén, 2016).
 A major factor for the success of the tourism sector is not only the beautiful destinations but the
skilled labor as it can make the vacation excellent by their experience and skills. The lack of
training or coaching to the young people who joins this sector is creating a broken tourism
experience. The employees are constantly hired and fired due to less or no experience. The
maximum number of employees are immigrants and they are new to the custom and tradition of
the countries. They need proper training before joining the company. The government has to
invest in employment bridging programs for tourism sector also by promoting tourism career
options (Jayawardena, Sovani, & MacDonald, 2017).
 Wages and tourist inflow are the two major problems. Every employee demands a constant pay
and full year employment. The labor group who are involved in tourism business work on the
factors where they have to get adequate pay and minimum facilities from the company. It has
been a constant concern of the labor force of getting paid inadequately. The minimum facilities
are also not provided to many short term part time employees. This triggers low interest in this