Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

88 Micro Businesses

▼ 1% from 89

1–19 employees

29 Small & Medium Business

▲ 4% from 28

20–99 employees

0 Large Business

▼ 100% from 1

100+ employees

12 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Cariboo C	5	2	0	3	0	0	0%
Fraser-Fort George D	6	1	2	1	2	0	0%
Fraser-Fort George E	1	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Fraser-Fort George F	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fraser-Fort George H	8	7	0	1	0	0	+33%
Jasper	83	26	40	12	4	1	-5%
McBride	13	6	5	1	1	0	0%
Prince George	293	31	149	49	62	2	+1%
Thompson-Nicola A (Wells Gray Country)	8	3	1	1	1	2	-11%
Thompson-Nicola B (Thompson Headwaters)	6	3	2	0	1	0	-25%
Thompson-Nicola O (Lower North Thompson)	3	3	0	0	0	0	+200%
Valemount	15	5	7	1	2	0	-6%

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%	0	0	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	0	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	11	0%	34	10	0
Transportation	4859	Other transit and ground passenger transportation [4859]	1	0%	7	1	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	1	0%	35	0	1
Transportation	4879	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, other [4879]	1		7	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	1	0%	0	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	3	0%	52	2	1
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	1	0%	0	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	1	0%	0	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	2	0%	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	1	0%	7	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	0	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	10	0%	206	8	3
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	25	0%	326	22	3
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	4	-20%	44	2	1
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	4	0%	52	2	1
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	48	-2%	1,080	32	17

Parks

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

2.4m National parks visitors

▲ 110% from 1.1m

Sum of reported attendance for 1 matched Parks Canada place.

1.3m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 112% from 602.1k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 22% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

1 national park and 32 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

Parks Canada Source: Parks Canada, licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. https://parks.canada.ca/

BC Parks Source: BC Parks, Province of British Columbia, licensed under the Open Government Licence - BC. https://bcparks.ca/

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