Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

64 Micro Businesses

▼ 0% from 64

1–19 employees

15 Small & Medium Business

▼ 6% from 16

20–99 employees

2 Large Business

▲ 100% from 1

100+ employees

14 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Becher Bay 1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colwood	30	3	16	8	3	0	+3%
Cowichan Valley A	11	2	8	1	0	0	+22%
Cowichan Valley B	14	1	10	0	1	2	0%
Cowichan Valley C	8	0	5	3	0	0	0%
Cowichan Valley D	15	2	8	4	1	0	+7%
Cowichan Valley E	8	0	2	2	4	0	0%
Cowichan Valley F	3	2	0	1	0	0	0%
Juan de Fuca (Part 1)	9	3	5	1	0	0	0%
Juan de Fuca (Part 2)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Langford	117	5	82	20	6	4	+4%
Metchosin	9	1	3	5	0	0	-10%
Sooke	30	3	18	6	1	2	-3%
T'Sou-ke	0	0	0	0	0	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	0%	10	2	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	4	0%	42	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	2	0%	17	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	14	0%	236	13	0	1
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	5	-17%	86	3	2	0
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	5	0%	45	4	1	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	2	-33%	17	2	0	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	47	+7%	953	35	11	1

Parks

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

1.2m National parks visitors

▲ 3% from 1.2m

Sum of reported attendance for 1 matched Parks Canada place.

853.5k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▼ 21% from 1.1m

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 45% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

1 national park and 11 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/

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