Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

141 Micro Businesses

▲ 1% from 139

1–19 employees

28 Small & Medium Business

▼ 13% from 32

20–99 employees

2 Large Business

▼ 0% from 2

100+ employees

26 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Ashcroft	3	0	1	1	1	0	-40%
Cache Creek	14	8	6	0	0	0	-7%
Central Okanagan West	2	1	1	0	0	0	-33%
Chilliwack	242	12	160	52	12	6	+5%
Fraser Valley A	8	3	2	2	1	0	0%
Fraser Valley B	2	0	0	1	1	0	0%
Fraser Valley C	4	4	0	0	0	0	0%
Fraser Valley D	7	2	4	1	0	0	0%
Fraser Valley E	1	0	0	0	1	0	0%
Fraser Valley F	1	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Fraser Valley G	5	1	1	2	0	1	+25%
Harrison Hot Springs	19	8	9	2	0	0	-10%
Hope	39	15	21	1	2	0	-3%
Kent	17	2	10	2	3	0	0%
Lillooet	13	5	4	3	1	0	-7%
Logan Lake	7	3	2	2	0	0	0%
Lytton	3	1	0	1	1	0	0%
Merritt	45	11	26	6	2	0	+5%
North Okanagan B	5	3	0	1	1	0	0%
Okanagan-Similkameen H	3	1	0	1	0	1	0%
Seabird Island	0	0	0	0	0	0
Squamish-Lillooet A	3	2	1	0	0	0	0%
Squamish-Lillooet C	7	2	2	2	1	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola I (Blue Sky Country)	4	2	2	0	0	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola M (Beautiful Nicola Valley - North)	3	2	0	1	0	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola N (Beautiful Nicola Valley - South)	0	0	0	0	0	0	-100%

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]	3	0%	32	3	0	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Transportation	4832	Inland water transportation [4832]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Transportation	4851	Urban transit systems [4851]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	2	0%	10	2	0	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Transportation	4879	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, other [4879]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	3	0%	8	3	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	2	+100%	10	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	5	0%	49	4	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	13	-7%	172	11	2	0
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	43	+5%	347	39	4	0
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	14	0%	248	10	4	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	4	0%	63	3	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	75	-5%	1,526	57	15	2

Parks

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

3.4m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 8% from 3.2m

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 28% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

43 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

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

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