Bottom Line: Bridging the Labour Gap

The final report in a series of three labour supply and demand reports, Bottom Line: Bridging the Labour Gap quantifies the effect of strategies that could fill the 240,000-job shortfall in the tourism sector. This shortfall was identified in our 2016 report, Bottom Line: Labour Challenges Threaten Tourism’s Growth.

This third report builds on the 2016 analysis by looking at three scenarios that could increase tourism’s labour supply, quantifying the number of jobs that would be filled by:

1. Increasing levels of immigration and increasing non-permanent residents’ transition to permanent residency
2. Increasing the attractiveness of tourism as a place of work
3. Implementing workplace literacy and essential skills training