Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

96 Micro Businesses

▲ 2% from 94

1–19 employees

29 Small & Medium Business

▲ 7% from 27

20–99 employees

0 Large Business

▼ 100% from 1

100+ employees

19 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Bulkley-Nechako D	4	2	0	2	0	0	0%
Bulkley-Nechako E	3	1	0	1	1	0	-40%
Bulkley-Nechako F	0	0	0	0	0	0	-100%
Cariboo A	6	3	2	1	0	0	0%
Cariboo B	2	1	0	1	0	0	0%
Cariboo C	5	2	0	3	0	0	0%
Cariboo D	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cariboo F	7	6	1	0	0	0	0%
Cariboo I	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cariboo J	11	9	0	0	2	0	+10%
Cariboo K	2	1	1	0	0	0	0%
Fraser-Fort George C	3	2	0	1	0	0	-25%
Fraser-Fort George D	6	1	2	1	2	0	0%
Fraser-Fort George E	1	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Prince George	293	31	149	49	62	2	+1%
Quesnel	58	11	34	11	2	0	+5%
Thompson-Nicola A (Wells Gray Country)	8	3	1	1	1	2	-11%
Wells	7	3	2	2	0	0	+17%
Williams Lake	65	12	33	14	4	2	-3%

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
Transportation	4812	Non-scheduled air transportation [4812]	1	0%	3	1	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	6	0%	22	5	0
Transportation	4855	Charter bus industry [4855]	1	0%	75	0	1
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	2	+100%	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	1		3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	3	+50%	84	2	1
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	35	0	1
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	18	+6%	195	15	3
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	27	0%	318	25	3
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	7	0%	80	5	1
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	3	+50%	56	2	1
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	53	-2%	1,073	37	16

Parks

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

849.7k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 103% from 419.4k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 27% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

26 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/

Prince George-North Cariboo