About Us

A Message from Louise Blazyk, our Founding Director 

 “Choose a Career You Have Passion for, Success Comes from Doing the Things We Enjoy.”

“To learn new skills, one must be focused, dedicated, and have the right attitude toward learning. Employers value employees who are highly trained, and knowledgeable about their products and services, aim for excellence in customer care, demonstrate a healthy positive attitude, and ability to self-manage.”

“Learning is a lifelong process & commitment,
there are no shortcuts.”

Free Community Services, including workshops, are available for;

  • High Schools,
  • Community Centres,
  • Organizations & Employment Resource Centres including those who assist Second Career clients with their application.

It is our pleasure to participate in career events and provide workshops and presentations at Career/Job Fairs when possible. We have been offering this free community service for over thirty-five years.

Please send an E-mail to info@travelcollege.ca with details of your upcoming event.

Travel College Canada…Career Training Specialists

Travel College Canada is a unique “Boutique” career college with over 35 years experience in providing high-quality career training for those interested in the travel and tourism industry. Job search assistance and exceptional support services is provided to our diploma program graduates.

Courses are Online and Hybrid (in-class, Zoom or other) may be available. Teaching style is a blending of essential theory and exploratory research combined with real-life case studies and role-playing. Small class size encourages students to develop communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills which sets a strong foundation for workplace environment.

Whether you have just made a decision to start your career journey in the travel industry or are re-entering the industry after an absence we highly recommend choosing one of our two quality Diploma Programs or our Home Based Travel Professional certificate program – the choice is yours!

Email info@travelcollege.ca TODAY and request the Enrolment Contract for your program of choice. Start Training then Start working to enjoy the rewards of your new career with confidence in less than a year!

For assistance in selecting the best program to meet your travel career needs, or discuss your career goals please email: info@travelcollege.ca  – We are here to help.

We invite you to read inspiring stories from our graduates who are enjoying the careers they once dreamed of. Click Testimonials

Our Mission Statement

  • Provide a high-quality education and training experience for all students, and corporate clients leading to professional and personal success
  • Dedicated to motivating, encouraging and supporting students and graduates to succeed in their chosen career
  • To ensure students are gaining the current required skills and knowledge to meet the changing needs of employers – our partners in the travel and tourism industry
  • To provide a caring, respectful, and supportive environment allowing individuals to grow, develop and achieve professional and personal success.

Our Vision

An advocate of professional business ethics with integrity, and commitment.

Our Values

We are committed to teaching individuals to think, as well as do, through encouragement and support. We demonstrate a high level of professionalism in all aspects of the company by respecting our clients, co-workers and management.

Policies

Ontario Career Colleges Key Performance Indicators

The College’s Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy        

 

  1. Policy Application

The Policy applies to all members of the career college community including students, employees, staff, faculty, administrators, contract service providers, contractors, officers, directors and individuals who are directly connected to any of Travel College Canada initiatives, volunteers and visitors.

  1. The Scope

The Policy applies to incidents and complaints of sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment that have occurred on Travel Career College campus or at a Travel College Canada career college event and involve members of the career college community as defined in paragraph one, the Policy Application.

  1. Purpose and Intent

All members of Travel College Canada career college community have a right to study and work in an environment free of sexual violence and sexual harassment. This document sets out our policy on sexual misconduct, sexual violence, and sexual harassment; defines the prohibited behaviours; outlines our investigative processes for sexual misconduct, sexual violence, and sexual harassment; and establishes consequences for violations, particularly in relation to sexual misconduct against a student.

  1. Policy Objectives

Travel College Canada is committed to providing members of our career college community an educational environment free from sexual misconduct, sexual violence, and sexual harassment and treating those individuals who report incidents of sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment with dignity and respect.

To that end, Travel College Canada will educate and train faculty, staff and students about this Policy and how to identify situations that involve, or could progress into sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment and how to reduce these forms of prohibited behaviours.

  1. Definitions

This Policy prohibits sexual misconduct, which includes sexual abuse, sexual violence and sexual harassment.

Sexual Harassment includes:

(a)           any course of vexatious comment or conduct of a sexual nature and/or relating to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression

  • Any course of vexatious comment or conduct of a sexual nature that is known or ought reasonably to have been known to be unwelcome, including:
  • offensive jokes or comments of a sexual nature;
  • displaying of pornographic or sexist pictures or materials, including online;
  • suggestive or offensive remarks;
  • unwelcome language related to gender;
  • remarks, jokes, innuendoes, propositions, or taunting about a person’s body, attire, sex or sexual orientation;
  • leering or inappropriate staring;
  • bragging about sexual prowess; and/or
  • physical contact such as touching, patting, or pinching, with an underlying sexual connotation; as well as

(b)           sexual solicitation or advance made by a person in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the person where the person making the solicitation or advance knows or ought reasonably to know that it is unwelcome.

Sexual Violence includes:

  • sexual assault which is any type of an unwanted sex act done by one person to another, without that person’s consent, that violates the sexual integrity of an individual ranging from unwanted touching to penetration;
  • any violence, whether physical or psychological or otherwise, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality, including sexual abuse; and
  • criminal harassment (including stalking and cyber bullying).

Sexual Misconduct includes sexual abuse and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes, in relation to a student enrolled at Travel College Canada.

(a)           physical sexual relations with the student, touching of a sexual nature of the student, or behaviour or remarks of a sexual nature toward the student by an employee of Travel College Canada where,

  • the act constitutes an offence under the Criminal Code (Canada);
  • the act infringes the right of the student under clause 7(3)(a) of the Human Rights Code to be free from a sexual solicitation or advance; and/or
  • the act of an employee, in relation to a student, that constitutes sexual violence and sexual harassment as defined herein, or which contravenes this policy or any other policy, rule or other requirement of Travel College Canada respecting sexual relations between employees and students; as well as

(b)           any conduct by an employee of Travel College Canada that infringes the right of the student under clause 7(3)(b) of the Human Rights Code to be free from a reprisal or threat of reprisal for the rejection of a sexual solicitation or advance.

  1. Obligations of All Members – All members of our career college community are expected to:
  2. take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual misconduct, sexual violence and sexual harassment on our career college campus or events; and
  3. report immediately to the Campus Administrator if they are subject to, witness or have knowledge of sexual misconduct, or have reason to believe that sexual misconduct has occurred or may occur.

If a member of our career college community believes she/he has been sexually harassed by a member of our career college community, she/he may: confront the harasser personally or in writing pointing out the unwelcome behaviour and requesting that it stop; and/or report the complaint to Campus Administrator in writing.

  1. Reporting Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Violence & Sexual Harassment

Incidents of sexual misconduct, sexual violence or sexual harassment against a student should be reported by any member of our career college community to Campus Administrator.  Incidents of sexual misconduct, sexual violence or sexual harassment against someone other than a student should be reported to Campus Administrator.

Students that report an incident of, or make a complaint about, sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment, in good faith, will not be subject to discipline or sanctions for violations of the Travel College Canada policies relating to drug or alcohol use at the time the alleged sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment occurrence.

Individuals who disclose their experience of sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment, through reporting an incident of, making a complaint about, or accessing supports and services for sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment, will not be asked irrelevant questions during the investigation process by the Travel College Canada staff or investigators, including irrelevant questions relating to the individual’s sexual expression or past sexual history.

To the extent it is possible, Campus Administrator will attempt to keep all information disclosed confidential except in those circumstances it believes an individual is at imminent risk of self-harm, or of harming another, there are reasonable grounds to believe that others in our career community are at risk, or where disclosure is required by law.

Travel College Canada recognizes the right of the complainant to determine whether her or his complaint will be dealt with by the police and/or Travel College Canada. However, in certain circumstances, Travel College Canada may be required by law or its internal policies to initiate an internal investigation and/or inform police or other officials without the complainant’s consent, if it believes the safety of members of its career college community is at risk.

  1. Investigating Complaints

Upon a complaint of alleged sexual misconduct, sexual violence or sexual harassment being made, the Campus Administrator will initiate an investigation, including as follows:

  1. determining whether the incident should be referred immediately to police;
  2. meeting with the complainant to determine the date and time of the incident, the persons involved, the names of any person who witnessed the incident and a complete description of what occurred;
  3. interviewing the complainant, any person involved in the incident and any identified witnesses;
  4. interviewing any other person who may have knowledge of incidents related to the complaint or any other similar incidents;
  5. informing the respondent of the complaint, providing details of the allegations and giving the respondent an opportunity to respond to those allegations;
  6. providing reasonable updates to the complainant and the respondent about the status of the investigation; and
  7. determining what disciplinary/corrective action, if any, should be taken.

 

  1. Disciplinary Measures (Not in Relation to a Student)

If it is determined by Travel College Canada that a member of our career college community has been involved in sexual misconduct, sexual violence or sexual harassment of a member of our career college community, not in relation to a student, immediate disciplinary or corrective action will be taken up to and including termination of employment or expulsion of a student (as appropriate).

  1. Disciplinary Measures (In Relation to a Student)

If it is determined by Travel College Canada that an employee of Travel College Canada has been involved in an act of sexual misconduct toward a student enrolled at Travel College Canada may discharge or discipline the employee for that act.  In accordance with the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005 where discharge or discipline occurs as a result of sexual misconduct toward a student:

  1. the discharge or disciplinary measure shall be deemed to be for just cause for all purposes;
  2. the employee shall not be entitled to notice of termination or termination pay or any other compensation or restitution as a result of the discharge or disciplinary measure; and
  3. despite subsection 48 (17) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, and despite any provision of a collective agreement or employment contract specifying a penalty for the infraction, no arbitrator, arbitration board or other adjudicator shall substitute any other penalty for the discharge or disciplinary measure imposed by Travel College Canada.

If an employee commits an act of sexual misconduct and the employee is discharged or the employee resigns from their employment due to an act of sexual misconduct, Travel College Canada shall not subsequently re-employ that employee.

If Travel College Canada determines that an individual has become re-employed by Travel College Canada, contrary to this policy in relation to sexual misconduct, the employee shall be discharged and the above conditions of termination shall continue to apply.

  1. Criminal and Civil Proceedings

In cases where criminal proceedings are initiated, Travel College Canada will assist police agencies, lawyers, insurance companies, and courts to the fullest extent.

Where criminal and/or civil proceedings are commenced in respect of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual violence or sexual harassment, Travel College Canada may conduct its own independent investigation and make its own determination in accordance with its own policies and procedures.

  1. Making False Statements

It is a violation of this Policy for anyone to: knowingly make a false complaint of sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment: provide false information about a complaint; and/or pursue a complaint in bad faith. Individuals who violate this Policy are subject to disciplinary and/or corrective action, up to and including termination of employment or expulsion of a student (as appropriate).

  1. Reprisal

It is a violation of this Policy to retaliate or threaten to retaliate against a complainant, acting in good faith, who has brought forward a complaint of sexual misconduct, sexual violence, or sexual harassment, provided information related to a complaint, or otherwise been involved in the complaint investigation process.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: In an emergency, please go to the nearest hospital; call 911 or Google the nearest crises resource in your area.