Surfing for Work in British Columbia

Friday, 09/10/2010

1.0	Introduction

2.0	Topic List

3.0	Using the Internet

4.0	Research on the Net

4.01	The Labour Market

4.1	The BC Economy

4.2	Occupational LMI

4.21	Use with Caution!

4.22	Today's Skills

4.23	Essential Skills

4.3	Ed. & Train'g LMI

4.4	Sector LMI

4.41	Analyzing sectors

4.42	Canadian Sector Information

4.43	Sectors in British Columbia

4.44	Entertainment and Culture

4.45	Government

4.46	Health Care

4.47	Science & Technology

4.48

Tourism

4.49	Forestry-Wood

4.491

Building Our Tutorial

4.5	Community LMI

4.51	Creative Observation

4.52	Community LMI on the Net

4.6	Professional Associations

5.0	Online Job Search

6.0	Self-Employment

7.0	Special Groups

8.0	Career Self-Management

9.0

Feedback

4.48 Tourism

BC Adventure Network
A guide to travel and tourism in British Columbia. Information about accommodations and outdoor recreation as well as BC's animals, birds, forests and game fish.

BC Resources for People in Tourism
Check these resources that describe the tourism industry in British Columbia. Click on Industry Overview for information about tourism in BC.

Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council
The Council promotes professionalism in the Canadian tourism industry. Click on Career Planning to learn about work opportunities in the sector.

Destinations Tourism Jobs
An employment service for the BC tourism industry. It offers individual services to bring employers and job seekers together.

Tourism Resource Centre
Based in Parksville, BC, this site offers links to many tourism and hospitality-related sites across North America.

Tourism WorkWeb
Tourism Work Web provides tourism and hospitality employment and training opportunitites for tourism job seekers, professionals and employers.

Career Planning in Tourism
Explore this site from the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council for sector information about the tourism industry. Be sure to click on the tabs About Tourism and Sectors in Tourism. To use the site you need to register with a user name and password.


	"Tourism employs over 200,000 people in British Columbia. One in every eight people working in BC is working in a tourism related occupation. 354,000 job openings in Canada's tourism industry are predicted over the next 10 years. Over 65,000 of those openings are anticipated for supervisors and managers." - Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism

	Ongoing population growth and a growing hospitality and tourism sector are generating new jobs for chefs and cooks. Further, the size of the occupation is large, meaning many openings resulting from turnover. - From Work Futures 2000