Going to lecture who work in tourism in Canada. Based on the tourism labor highlights, the 2016 census counted for 1.8 million Canadians employ in the tourism sector does 10.6% of all employ individuals in Canada, there were 700 to 1600 jobs in Canada directly attributable to a spending by tourists. The food and beverage services industry is the largest employer among tourism businesses accounted for over 50% of the recent jobs. And also, this food and beverage service industry also rely on locker residents of Canada. So basically have an impact not only with tourists, but also with a greater population. Tourism provides significant employment for young people.
The 2016 census showed 560,000 Youth aged 15 to 24 work in tourism, they make up 31% of Canada's tourism workforce compared to only 13% of the overall labor force population. And this is the key. The only represent 13% of the whole population. That's why they need for immigrants. And they were 24. Then to come and enter the industry in Canada.
The tourism sector is a significant source of employment for newcomers to Canada. The 2016 census showed that 28% of tourism employees were immigrants or no permanent residence. So basically, this is the father and the big opportunity for foreigners to secure jobs in Canada. Now let's take a look at the tourist in Asia Canada website. When we get more information about who works in tourism, so we are now in the web page of tourism HR, or you can say here is that we have specific information based on statistics Have the tourism sector in Canada. The first question was, are they mostly men or women?
So the tourism is an equal opportunity Industry Canada as most of the industry, we just over 50% of the employees in Canada interesting being women, okay, based on the census. So 51% of employees that work in the tourism industry in Canada are women. How or are they were approximately 61% of workers in the tourism are between the age of 15 and 24 years old. 60% are between 25 and 44 years old and 33% or 45 years or an order. Normally. This is the distribution as you can see 33% is a big chunk of labor market, which means that these people will return in the next 20 years and I can open opportunity for younger people to enter their age.
History as well as immigrant languages do they speak closer to 20% of the people working in tourism and speak their first language other than French or English? Where do they come from? slightly more than 20% of the people working interesting were born outside of Canada. What can I go through they have most people work in jobs in the food and beverage services industry. And this juggling group cooks, restaurant, full service managers, for counter attendants and kitchen helpers, food and beverage servers, so they work full time or part time. many interesting jobs have flexible schedule, and are a good choice for people who are thinking school or caregiver for the family.
Approximately 37% of workers in the tourism sector work part time. A third of these are only during the tourist season in the area. So a lot of people use this kind of jobs as a part time. So it's not uncommon to see people working in two different restaurants. Just to Cobra make it full time other people just work on my restaurant or hotel. So that's very interesting information.
And that's basically all the tourism facts about Canada and how people work interesting in Canada. I hope you enjoyed this lecture on thank you very much