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TSNO is your Workforce Development Network for Tourism & Hospitality

Funding. Education. Data. Tools. Forecasting. Resources.

We already work, where you work

TSNO is actively working at the community level. You can click on the map to see for yourself. TSNO provides services across Ontario such as: Workforce planning, Partnership building, Talent Pool Development and Skills Training.

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and impact in your region

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TSNO strategic initiatives
Partnerships to Recruit and Advance Workers

Partnerships to Recruit and Advance Workers

The TSNO Alliance creates dynamic partnerships that connect employers with the employment services they need to recruit and advance workers with the right, essential, technical and employability skills. Workers also benefit by getting the training they need, in order to qualify for the jobs in the first place. It’s a win-win.

Kick-starting Workforce Recovery

Kick-starting Workforce Recovery

Tourism & Hospitality Emergency Recovery is a national workforce recovery initiative to connect workers to exciting career opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector and to support businesses across Canada as they embark on the path to post-COVID recovery.

Say Yes, To Tourism & Hospitality Opportunities, In Northern Ontario

Say Yes, To Tourism & Hospitality Opportunities, In Northern Ontario

Tourism SkillsNet North (TSNN) is designed to train up to 300 potential employees and match them with a minimum of 150 employers within Northern Ontario’s tourism sector. Qualified employers will be eligible for a 30% wage subsidy up to $3,000 per employee.

Skills & Training, Created For New Canadians

Skills & Training, Created For New Canadians

Are you new to Canada? You can get the skills you need to have a rewarding career in the Canadian hotel industry to help build a successful future in Canada. From employers and success stories to career opportunities and resources – it’s all right here.

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Hospitality Career Pathways

In this free, eight-week program, participants are introduced to various careers in the Tourism & Hospitality industry. Get the skills necessary for success with online instructor-led sessions, independent activities, one-on-one coaching sessions and more.

Toronto Employment & Social Services

Looking for a new career? Need training? Want to access financial benefits through the Ontario Works program? Interested in service supports such as health, housing, childcare, or other social services? How about access to computers, photocopiers, printers? If you’re a Toronto resident, Toronto Employment & Social Services wants to help.

Instructor-led training resources ready for TSNO members

TSNO members can take advantage of a variety of innovative training programs for front-line and management-level employees. Whether in-person or online, these training programs provide TSNO members with the tools and resources they need to help attract and retain employees in their regions. 

Managers & Supervisors

You’ll want to learn more about training. The Accelerated Leadership Training is designed for tourism and hospitality sector managers and leaders seeking to improve their leadership skills, build their people skills, and advance their careers. Featuring four unique leadership courses, this training focuses on developing the skills managers and leaders need to build, lead and grow with effective teams. It is FREE for Ontario tourism and hospitality sector leaders.

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Real time industry data at your fingertips.

In business reliable, real-time sector data is key. TSNO members already have access to high-quality, locally relevant data and insights that can help them make smarter, more proactive business decisions in their regions. Best of all these tools are designed to give business owners and managers a competitive edge by enabling them to continually improve how they run their business. We’ve highlighted a few key benefits for each of the three tools below.

The LMI tool helps members gain insights into regional and demographic trends, provides statistics and tracks workplace changes so they can make better more informed decisions about recruiting new staff, training current workforce, and much more.

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  • Stay competitive by finding workers with the right skills, faster.
  • Workforce technologies that help keep people employed in their region.

The Job Transition Dashboard helps TSNO members ensure smooth labour transitions within their region by matching the qualified candidates to employers.

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  • Matches candidates with the right combination of skills, abilities, and knowledge to the right opportunities.
  • Identifies specialized or highly paid occupations that may require retraining, a move to another sector, or destination.

Innovative tools to address skills and labour challenges

ALIGN Platform

ALiGN Platform

TSNO members are able to access ALiGN. The ALiGN network is supported by Ryerson University’s Magnet platform which brings this first-of-its-kind youth employment model online making it accessible to businesses and jobseekers through the TSNO network. Through the ALiGN Network, youth will be matched to live job postings based on their own unique personality attributes and interests. Work-ready job seekers will be accelerated into employment. Candidates with skills or qualifications gaps, identified through an intensive assessment process, will receive industry-recognized training and certification, either through the network of regional training partners, or, through an online suite of industry training programs that can be accessed remotely.

Tourism & Hospitality Community Hub

Next Generation Tourism and Hospitality Worker

SkillsPass gives millions of people the ability to manage and share their training certificates with current and future employers. Designed for both workers, employers, and partners, SkillsPass provides participants with their own credentialing wallet, which houses certificates from all training courses offered by OTEC. Participants will begin to build their seamless, lifelong learning record that travels with them from job to job and industry to industry.

Not sure how these tools can help your business?

Become a TSNO Member

Over 270 Members and counting! Top Reasons to Become a Member

  • Builds collaborative partnerships between industry and the workforce development system
  • Supports attraction, retention and advancement of tourism and hospitality workers
  • Leverages data and technology to help businesses, destinations and workers navigate the labour market with intelligence
  • Ensures quality assurance across training networks through industry-led programming standards and strong evaluation
  • Leverages data and evidence to support targeted investments and consistent communications across the network
  • Provides economies of scale to businesses, destinations and training partners pursuing data, training and technology infrastructure to support their workforce development goals
  • Provides a framework for local strategic workforce planning and the support required for effective implementation

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