Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

75 Micro Businesses

▲ 9% from 69

1–19 employees

41 Small & Medium Business

▼ 2% from 42

20–99 employees

4 Large Business

▼ 0% from 4

100+ employees

6 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Colwood	30	3	16	8	3	0	+3%
Highlands	3	2	0	1	0	0	0%
Juan de Fuca (Part 1)	9	3	5	1	0	0	0%
Langford	117	5	82	20	6	4	+4%
Metchosin	9	1	3	5	0	0	-10%
View Royal	27	1	20	3	2	1	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]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	4	+33%	42	3	1	0
Transportation	4859	Other transit and ground passenger transportation [4859]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	2	0%	77	1	1	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	4	0%	27	4	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	3	0%	8	3	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	16	+23%	649	11	4	1
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	4	0%	241	2	1	1
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	3	0%	167	2	0	1
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	81	+1%	1,890	48	32	1

Parks

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

836.2k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▼ 7% from 896.8k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 100% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

2 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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