Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

205 Micro Businesses

▲ 2% from 201

1–19 employees

82 Small & Medium Business

▼ 1% from 83

20–99 employees

5 Large Business

▼ 0% from 5

100+ employees

16 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Barriere	4	2	2	0	0	0	0%
Cariboo F	7	6	1	0	0	0	0%
Cariboo H	2	2	0	0	0	0	0%
Chase	13	2	9	2	0	0	+18%
Clearwater	19	7	7	3	0	2	-5%
Columbia-Shuswap F	11	5	4	2	0	0	-8%
Kamloops	326	55	185	63	17	6	+1%
Kamloops 1	10	4	4	1	1	0	0%
Sun Peaks Mountain	15	4	7	3	0	1	-6%
Thompson-Nicola A (Wells Gray Country)	8	3	1	1	1	2	-11%
Thompson-Nicola B (Thompson Headwaters)	6	3	2	0	1	0	-25%
Thompson-Nicola J (Copper Desert Country)	8	0	4	3	0	1	+14%
Thompson-Nicola L (Grasslands)	5	3	0	2	0	0	-17%
Thompson-Nicola O (Lower North Thompson)	3	3	0	0	0	0	+200%
Thompson-Nicola P (Rivers and the Peaks)	7	2	3	1	1	0	0%
Whispering Pines 4	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	4812	Non-scheduled air transportation [4812]	3	0%	27	4	0	0
Transportation	4851	Urban transit systems [4851]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	3	+50%	47	3	1	0
Transportation	4855	Charter bus industry [4855]	2	0%	76	1	2	0
Transportation	4859	Other transit and ground passenger transportation [4859]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	3	0%	22	4	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	3	0%	44	2	1	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	9	+13%	83	8	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	3	0%	44	2	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7112	Spectator sports [7112]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	2	+100%	10	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	2	0%	37	1	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	6	0%	982	3	1	2
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	36	0%	1,463	27	9	1
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	53	+4%	1,195	38	13	1
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	12	0%	157	10	3	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	7	+17%	190	2	5	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	143	-2%	2,665	99	43	1

Parks

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

660.2k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 42% from 465.2k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 23% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

30 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/

Kamloops-North Thompson