Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

144 Micro Businesses

▲ 4% from 138

1–19 employees

36 Small & Medium Business

▲ 3% from 35

20–99 employees

1 Large Business

▼ 0% from 1

100+ employees

9 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Coquitlam	461	13	316	101	17	14	-1%
Fraser Valley C	4	4	0	0	0	0	0%
Fraser Valley F	1	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Katzie 1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0%
Maple Ridge	240	10	149	73	5	3	+3%
Metro Vancouver A	30	0	24	5	0	1	0%
Mission	101	2	71	19	7	2	+2%
Pitt Meadows	62	1	32	22	5	2	+5%
Squamish-Lillooet D	6	1	1	3	1	0	-14%

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]	4	0%	54	3	1	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	1		3	1	0	0
Transportation	4854	School and employee bus transportation [4854]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	26	+13%	142	25	1	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	1	0%	0	0	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	3	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	8	0%	20	8	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	3	0%	5	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	19	+6%	535	11	6	1
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	4	0%	8	3	0	0
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	3	0%	84	2	1	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	6	+20%	81	4	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	99	+1%	1,786	75	25	0

Parks

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

1.7m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 34% from 1.2m

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 67% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

3 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/

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows