2025 Fall Workforce Report

The 2025 Fall Workforce Report is now available—exclusively for HAC members.

Drawing on insights from 119 hotel operators across Canada, this edition highlights how workforce pressures continue to shape our industry and how hoteliers are responding through youth recruitment, staff housing, and innovative workforce solutions.

Your feedback fuels HAC’s advocacy, helping drive policy changes like TFW and student cap exemptions and shaping proposals such as the Canadian International Workforce Program.

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Government Responds to Rural Workforce Pressures

The Government of Canada has announced new Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) measures. This is a direct response to concerns Canada’s hotel industry has raised with government. The new adjustments will permit eligible rural employers to retain their current number of low-wage temporary foreign workers and temporarily increase the allowable share of low-wage temporary foreign workers fro...

Hotel Association of Canada Rebrands as Hotels Canada, Marking a New Era for the Industry

March 5, 2026 – Toronto, ON Today, Beth McMahon, President & CEO, announced a bold new era for the national voice of Canada’s hotel sector: the Hotel...

Advancing the Hotel Sector’s Agenda: HAC Champions Industry Priorities in Ottawa

HAC continues to bring the hotel industry’s voice to federal consultations and parliamentary studies - advocating for practical policies that support workforc...

2026 National Day for Human Trafficking Awareness: Joint Statement from Canada’s Hotel Associations

February 19, 2026 — On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Canada—and throughout the year—Canada’s hotel industry is united in taking action to ...

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