Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

94 Micro Businesses

▲ 2% from 92

1–19 employees

31 Small & Medium Business

▼ 11% from 35

20–99 employees

3 Large Business

▼ 25% from 4

100+ employees

20 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Castlegar	38	6	22	8	2	0	-7%
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%
Fruitvale	2	0	1	0	1	0	0%
Kootenay Boundary A	2	0	1	1	0	0	0%
Kootenay Boundary B / Lower Columbia-Old-Glory	1	0	0	1	0	0
Kootenay Boundary C / Christina Lake	12	5	3	4	0	0	+50%
Kootenay Boundary D / Rural Grand Forks	4	2	0	1	1	0	0%
Montrose	2	1	1	0	0	0	0%
Nelson	86	13	40	21	8	4	-1%
North Okanagan D	3	1	0	2	0	0	0%
North Okanagan E	4	4	0	0	0	0	+33%
Rossland	22	6	6	9	0	1	-12%
Silverton	1	1	0	0	0	0	-67%
Trail	34	3	20	7	4	0	+6%
Warfield	2	1	1	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]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Transportation	4851	Urban transit systems [4851]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Transportation	4855	Charter bus industry [4855]	2	0%	37	1	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	3	0%	17	3	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	2	0%	17	2	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	1	-50%	15	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	6	0%	48	6	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	21	+5%	332	16	5	0
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	19	0%	587	10	9	1
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	7	+17%	46	7	0	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	58	-3%	1,213	41	15	2

Parks

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

754.7k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 78% from 424.3k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 77% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

13 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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