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Pre-Employment Training

Interested in a career in tourism or looking for exciting seasonal or part-time jobs in the tourism sector?

Is Tourism Right for Me?

A career in tourism is for enthusiastic, high-energy people who enjoy fast-paced environments and thrive from the responsibility of working with people. If you are not sure about the type of job you would be suited for, or you would like to find out if tourism is right for you, take our tourism career quizzes.

Discover Tourism offers fantastic interactive self-guided quizzes to help you understand if tourism is right for you.

Take a Tourism Career Quiz

Entry-Level Certification and Training

Just like a high-school diploma or a college certificate creates a lot more opportunities for those young people who have them, occupational certificates allow you to get where want in your career a lot faster.

For most occupational or professional certifications, you need to have related work experience, but there are a number of fantastic and affordable training resources available to help you prepare for the certification exam.

emerit offers entry-level certificate options, such as the Tourism Essentials Certificate Training and Certificate.

Tourism Essentials Certificate and Training

Tourism Essentials  is most useful for young people in the pre-employment stage, career changers, as well as newcomers to Canada. It helps develop a lot of useful transferable skills that will help with excelling in a variety of entry-level jobs. For example, skills such as customer service skills, time management skills, basic life management skills, and customer-facing language skills will all help an individual achieve success in a job. No previous work experience in tourism is required to obtain the Tourism Essentials Certificate.

Recognized by employers across Canada, the Tourism Essential Certificate gives a competitive edge towards gaining employment. It is also credited toward the final emerit Professional Certification that can be obtained with more work experience.  

The best training for the Tourism Essentials Certificate exam is to study the Tourism Essential Workbook. This self-study guide provides everything you need to succeed as tourism professional and complete the Tourism Essential Certificate process. If you want great results, get the Answer Key for the workbook as well.

Click here to browse our Tourism Essentials training products