Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

120 Micro Businesses

▼ 0% from 120

1–19 employees

39 Small & Medium Business

▲ 8% from 36

20–99 employees

3 Large Business

▼ 25% from 4

100+ employees

17 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Alberni-Clayoquot F	4	1	0	1	2	0	0%
Cowichan Valley G	7	3	1	2	1	0	-13%
Cowichan Valley H	2	2	0	0	0	0	-33%
Cowichan Valley I	1	0	1	0	0	0	0%
Ladysmith	27	4	17	5	1	0	+8%
Lantzville	7	0	4	3	0	0	-30%
Nanaimo	395	26	219	70	72	8	+3%
Nanaimo A	18	0	9	6	3	0	-10%
Nanaimo C	5	2	3	0	0	0	0%
Nanaimo E	13	0	3	5	3	2	-7%
Nanaimo F	14	1	5	4	4	0	-18%
Nanaimo G	13	5	2	3	3	0	0%
Nanoose	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oyster Bay 12	3	1	2	0	0	0	0%
Parksville	56	7	37	9	1	2	0%
Qualicum Beach	33	7	14	11	0	1	0%
qathet E	2	0	0	2	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%	40	2	1	0
Transportation	4832	Inland water transportation [4832]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	5	0%	34	5	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	3	+50%	8	3	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	1	-50%	10	2	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	5	0%	57	4	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	7	+17%	30	7	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	4	0%	19	4	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	23	+10%	282	21	4	0
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	22	0%	744	15	4	3
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	5	0%	60	6	0	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	3	0%	84	1	2	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	79	-2%	1,697	52	27	0

Parks

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

1.3m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▼ 9% from 1.4m

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 63% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

8 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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