Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

101 Micro Businesses

▼ 2% from 103

1–19 employees

35 Small & Medium Business

▲ 3% from 34

20–99 employees

6 Large Business

▲ 20% from 5

100+ employees

9 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Colwood	30	3	16	8	3	0	+3%
Esquimalt	36	1	26	7	2	0	+3%
Esquimalt	1	0	0	0	0	1	0%
Highlands	3	2	0	1	0	0	0%
Langford	117	5	82	20	6	4	+4%
New Songhees 1A	3	0	1	2	0	0	-25%
Saanich	278	11	190	48	20	9	-2%
Victoria	552	46	369	87	28	22	-1%
View Royal	27	1	20	3	2	1	0%

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	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	2	-33%	5	2	0	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	4	0%	10	4	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	4	0%	44	2	1	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	4	0%	20	3	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	3	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	4	0%	10	4	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	1	0%	0	0	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	150	0	0	1
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	13	+8%	743	9	3	2
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	7	-13%	121	2	3	0
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	2	0%	14	2	0	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	1	0%	0	0	0	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	92	+2%	2,069	67	23	2

Parks

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

61.3k National parks visitors

▲ 9% from 56.2k

Sum of reported attendance for 1 matched Parks Canada place.

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/

Esquimalt-Colwood