Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

172 Micro Businesses

▼ 1% from 173

1–19 employees

34 Small & Medium Business

▼ 6% from 36

20–99 employees

7 Large Business

▼ 0% from 7

100+ employees

22 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Central Kootenay A	14	6	6	2	0	0	-7%
Central Kootenay B	7	2	2	2	1	0	0%
Central Kootenay C	3	0	3	0	0	0	-25%
Central Kootenay D	12	9	0	2	1	0	+9%
Central Kootenay E	12	3	5	4	0	0	+9%
Central Kootenay F	8	4	0	3	0	1	0%
Central Kootenay G	1	0	0	1	0	0	0%
Central Kootenay H	12	2	3	7	0	0	+9%
Central Kootenay I	3	0	2	0	0	1	0%
Central Kootenay J	5	1	2	2	0	0	+25%
Central Kootenay K	7	4	1	1	1	0	0%
Columbia-Shuswap B	4	2	0	2	0	0	0%
Creston	31	5	17	9	0	0	-3%
East Kootenay C	9	2	4	1	2	0	-10%
East Kootenay E	3	2	1	0	0	0	0%
Kaslo	11	3	4	4	0	0	-15%
Kootenay Boundary A	2	0	1	1	0	0	0%
Nakusp	14	4	6	3	1	0	-7%
Nelson	86	13	40	21	8	4	-1%
New Denver	3	1	1	1	0	0	0%
Salmo	4	0	2	2	0	0	-20%
Silverton	1	1	0	0	0	0	-67%

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]	6	-14%	71	5	1	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	350	0	0	1
Transportation	4832	Inland water transportation [4832]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	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]	6	-14%	24	6	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]	5	+25%	57	4	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7112	Spectator sports [7112]	2	0%	17	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	3	-25%	8	3	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	9	+13%	57	9	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	33	0%	838	27	4	2
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	37	-5%	1,756	24	10	3
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	15	-6%	100	14	1	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	5	-17%	141	3	2	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	82	-1%	1,225	69	12	1

Parks

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

834.9k National parks visitors

▼ 0% from 837.8k

Sum of reported attendance for 1 matched Parks Canada place.

879.1k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 59% from 551.8k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 62% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

1 national park and 21 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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