Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

212 Micro Businesses

▼ 3% from 218

1–19 employees

107 Small & Medium Business

▲ 7% from 100

20–99 employees

5 Large Business

▼ 0% from 5

100+ employees

22 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Canal Flats	2	1	1	0	0	0	0%
Central Kootenay A	14	6	6	2	0	0	-7%
Central Kootenay B	7	2	2	2	1	0	0%
Central Kootenay D	12	9	0	2	1	0	+9%
Central Kootenay K	7	4	1	1	1	0	0%
Columbia-Shuswap A	25	15	3	4	2	1	-4%
Columbia-Shuswap B	4	2	0	2	0	0	0%
Columbia-Shuswap E	6	1	3	2	0	0	0%
Columbia-Shuswap F	11	5	4	2	0	0	-8%
Cranbrook	101	17	60	17	6	1	+1%
East Kootenay C	9	2	4	1	2	0	-10%
East Kootenay E	3	2	1	0	0	0	0%
East Kootenay F	31	8	14	8	0	1	0%
East Kootenay G	4	2	0	1	0	1	0%
Golden	65	19	31	12	3	0	0%
Improvement District No. 9 Banff	22	10	3	4	4	1	+5%
Invermere	32	3	16	6	6	1	-3%
Kimberley	36	7	13	11	3	2	-3%
Radium Hot Springs	29	14	11	4	0	0	-6%
Revelstoke	86	18	35	25	6	2	+8%
Shuswap	3	1	1	1	0	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola B (Thompson Headwaters)	6	3	2	0	1	0	-25%

1 Detailed Business Breakdown

Tourism NAICS categories that have employer locations. Estimated employees use the same size-range midpoints as the cards above: Micro Businesses (1–19), Small & Medium Business (20–99), and Large Business (100+). Categories with no locations are omitted.

Group	Naics	Name	Count	Change	Estimated Employees	Micro Businesses	Small Medium Business	Large Business
Transportation	4812	Non-scheduled air transportation [4812]	7	0%	46	7	0	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	2	0%	82	1	1	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	4	0%	27	4	0	0
Transportation	4859	Other transit and ground passenger transportation [4859]	2	0%	82	1	1	0
Transportation	4871	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, land [4871]	2	0%	17	2	0	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	2	0%	22	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	5	+25%	29	5	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	8	0%	66	7	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	8	0%	41	8	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	4	0%	59	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	55	0%	1,698	31	22	2
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	72	-8%	2,346	48	21	3
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	20	-5%	407	13	7	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	4	-20%	63	3	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	124	+7%	2,661	71	52	0

Parks

National park visits, BC Parks attendance, and how many parks are in this region.

9.7m National parks visitors

▲ 21% from 8m

Sum of reported attendance for 6 matched Parks Canada places.

1.3m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 95% from 686.8k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 50% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

6 national parks and 28 provincial parks.

Sources and attribution

Statistics Canada Adapted from Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3310109701

Parks Canada Source: Parks Canada, licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. https://parks.canada.ca/

BC Parks Source: BC Parks, Province of British Columbia, licensed under the Open Government Licence - BC. https://bcparks.ca/

Columbia River-Revelstoke