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Ottawa’s Brookstreet Hotel took home top prize for human resource development at the Tourism Industry Association’s Tourism Leadership Summit. The award, presented by Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) President Wendy Swedlove, recognizes businesses that have demonstrated a commitment to professionalism in the Canadian tourism workforce through professional recognition, training, and excellence in human resource management.
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On secondment from the Ottawa Carleton District School Board since 1995, Mrs. Stevens has worked tirelessly to integrate tourism studies into the high school curriculum. Prior to this, Mrs. Stevens spent over 25 years in the field of education.
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The Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, the Honourable Colin Hansen, Minister of Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Olympics for British Columbia, and the Honourable Olga Ilich, British Columbia's Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services, this week announced improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. These improvements will make it faster for employers in British Columbia and Alberta to hire foreign workers when there are no Canadian citizens or permanent residents available to fill the position.
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The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC), with the assistance of its provincial and territorial partners, recently completed the first ever national survey to collect compensation and benefits data from tourism establishments in three key industries: Accommodations, Food and Beverage Services, and Recreation and Entertainment. Specifically, the survey requested data for 28 different occupations at all levels, from frontline to senior management.
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The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) held its most successful Tourism HR Forum April 30 – May 1. The event theme, “Can tourism deliver? Responding to the HR Crisis,” was well received by delegates looking for solutions to their specific human resources challenges. The 250 delegates heard from an exceptional line-up of keynote and panel speakers on subjects including: working with various generational pools; mining the strengths of cultural diversity; becoming an employer of choice; and a number of other timely subjects.
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This past week, the Human Resource Module of the Tourism Satellite Account, Update to 2005 was released by Statistics Canada. In partnership with the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC), Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) and the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC), Statistics Canada is leading the world in developing a Human Resource Module for a Tourism Satellite Account.
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The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council welcomed the announcement made on February 23, 2007 by the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development (HRSDC) Monte Solberg, and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley regarding improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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The Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development (HRSDC), and the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) today announced additional improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker program. These improvements will help address the challenges employers in Canada’s tourism sector face in filling the growing number of unfilled positions.
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Chantal Smitheram, Casting Director at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa, received the Hotel Association of Canada’s Hall of Fame Award of Excellence last night, winning in the Human Resources category. The award is sponsored by the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) and emerit Tourism Training, and was presented during an awards dinner at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
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