Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Arts and Culture
- Consumer Issues
- Employment and Training
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Immigration
- Industry
- Infrastructure
- International Relations
- Labour
- Small Business
- Sports
- Tourism
- Transportation
Subject matters added through a monthly communication report
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
- A Tax Incentive Program as it pertains to inbound leisure travel to Canada. This program provides GST relief to volume leisure tour groups and meetings and conventions being held in Canada.
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic - Seeking changes on EI reform and other policy and support measures during the pandemic. Ensuring access to financial impact measures for its members. Expansion of the RRRF funding program for tourism businesses. Monitoring developments and assessing impacts on members. Advocating for the implementation of a Canadian Travel Incentive Program to encourage domestic travel recovery.
- Federal Tourism Strategy – supports government initiatives toward industry growth
- TIAC is seeking a well-funded and balanced national tourism marketing agency and will continue to work with the government to ensure that Canada's marketing efforts in mature and emerging markets are adequately funded, including co-investments with industry, and that campaigns are aligned with industry priorities.
Policies or Program
- Employment/Immigration – TIAC advocates for a permanent-residency path as a part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an industry focused Municipal Nominee Program
- Immigration - Modernizing Canada's visitor visa process in order to meet international demand for travel to Canada. These initiatives include reinvestment of visa processing fees into increased capacity, expanding transfer without visa, augmenting the Visa Application Centre ("VAC") network into new priority source markets and utilizing electronic travel authority as an alternative visa stream for lower-risk countries
- Transportation – TIAC advocates for the reduction and elimination of fees related to air travel including airport rents and CATSA fees paid for by travellers
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Regulations and policies in regards to marine mammals and waterways
- Regulations and policies in regards to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Regulation
- TIAC will work to improve Canada's competitiveness of Canada's aviation sector and the important role it serves in economic development and job creation. TIAC supports efforts to expand the number and scope of Canada's air liberalization agreements however Canada's ability to attract international business and leisure travellers is impeded, in part, by the layers of taxes, fees and levies imposed on the traveling public. TIAC is working to reform Canada's aviation cost structure.
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
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Bank of Canada
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Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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Canadian Heritage (PCH)
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Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor)
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
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Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
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Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)
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Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
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Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
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Justice Canada (JC)
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
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Parks Canada (PC)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Privy Council Office (PCO)
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Public Safety Canada (PS)
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Senate of Canada
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Statistics Canada (StatCan)
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Transport Canada (TC)
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
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Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
The Tourism Industry Association of Canada is the voice of Canadian tourism. Founded in 1930 to encourage the development of tourism in Canada, TIAC serves today as the national private-sector advocate for this $105 billion industry, representing the interests of the tourism business community nation-wide. It represents the interests of its members in the travel and tourism industry promoting positive measures that help the industry grow and prosper. TIAC's membership reflects partnerships among all sectors of the industry, and provincial, territorial and regional tourism associations, enabling the association to address the full range of issues facing Canadian tourism. Its activities focus on legislative and regulatory barriers to the growth of Canadian inbound travel and tourism.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
Beth Potter,
President and CEO
Organization's membership or classes of membership
TIAC has over six hundred member organizations organized into the following six categories: Tourism businesses which sell goods and/or services directly to visitors/travellers (accommodation, attraction, event/festival, transportation, travel trade, restaurant/food service, convention centres, concert hall, sports arena/stadium, duty-free shop or airport),; Destination (destination marketing organization, provincial marketing organization, convention and visitor bureaux, provincial/territorial tourism industry association or tourism destination region); Sectoral organization/association - typically a supplier that sells goods and/or services to tourism businesses; Media (Companies involved in the travel press); Educational category (institution with a tourism related program offered); and Federal, Provincial or Municipal government department or agency or an interprovincial economic development agency
Government funding
End date of the last completed financial year:
2020-08-31
List of Government Funding
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Government Institution
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Funding Received in Last Financial Year
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Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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$240,145.00
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Yes
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
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$0.00
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Yes
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In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
116 Lisgar Street Suite 600
Ottawa, ON K2P 0C2
Canada
Telephone number:
416-806-4094
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- Vincenzo Accardi,
Vice-President, Stakeholder Relations and Business Development |
No public offices held
- Ken Ross,
Vice-President Industry Services |
No public offices held
- Madison Simmons,
Director, Government Affairs |
No public offices held
