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Career Planning

Career Paths in Tourism

The tourism industry offers more than a seasonal or part-time job to help you pay the bills. It can offer meaningful and rewarding career opportunities.

Discover Tourism is your first destination for finding the right opportunity in one of Canada's fastest growing industries – tourism.

Once you join the tourism industry, emerit training and certification programs will help you form a more definitive goal of what your career path should be.

For students or young people in the pre-employment stage of life with limited work experience, there is much uncertainty about what career direction to take and where to start. By going through the process of certification, you gain a broader understanding of the tourism industry and a better idea of what area in tourism you would like to work and what opportunities exist.

Sample Career Path 1: Reservation Sales Agent

Likewise, for newcomers to Canada with previous work experience, emerit training programs bring knowledge of the Canadian work standards, which may differ from your country of origin. Going through the training will allow you to leverage your previous work experience more effectively. Employers are more likely to hire newcomers with emerit training, because emerit standards are nationally and internationally recognized.

Sample Career Path 2: Food and Beverage Server

For more seasoned staff emerit training ensures stronger leadership and management skills. It helps supervisors and managers move up to new levels of career development. It also offers an opportunity for making the transition into mentoring roles by becoming educators.

Sample Career Path 3: Retail Sales Associate

To view more career paths, visit Discover Tourism’s Career Planning  section.