Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

165 Micro Businesses

▼ 3% from 170

1–19 employees

50 Small & Medium Business

▲ 4% from 48

20–99 employees

5 Large Business

▼ 17% from 6

100+ employees

9 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Central Saanich	38	4	22	8	3	1	-3%
Cole Bay 3	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Saanich 2	5	0	2	2	1	0	0%
North Saanich	33	2	10	7	12	2	+3%
Saltspring Island	61	13	22	19	7	0	-3%
Sidney	62	7	36	12	5	2	+3%
South Saanich 1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0%
Southern Gulf Islands	33	10	10	8	3	2	-11%
Union Bay 4	0	0	0	0	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	4811	Scheduled air transportation [4811]	3	0%	80	2	1	0
Transportation	4812	Non-scheduled air transportation [4812]	5	0%	208	3	1	1
Transportation	4832	Inland water transportation [4832]	2	0%	5	2	0	0
Transportation	4851	Urban transit systems [4851]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	5	+25%	17	5	0	0
Transportation	4871	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, land [4871]	1	0%	35	0	1	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	3	-25%	24	3	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	9	+13%	39	9	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	10	+11%	302	7	2	1
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	7	-13%	51	7	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	2	+100%	17	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	9	-10%	23	9	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	8	0%	818	6	1	1
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	26	-7%	286	23	4	0
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	30	-6%	686	20	9	1
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	5	0%	49	5	0	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	96	0%	2,064	63	32	1

Parks

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

41.4k National parks visitors

▲ 67% from 24.8k

Sum of reported attendance for 1 matched Parks Canada place.

742.9k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 11% from 668.2k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 92% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

1 national park and 13 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/

Saanich North and the Islands