Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

161 Micro Businesses

▲ 3% from 157

1–19 employees

39 Small & Medium Business

▼ 5% from 41

20–99 employees

1 Large Business

▼ 0% from 1

100+ employees

19 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Armstrong	18	1	14	3	0	0	-14%
Columbia-Shuswap C	33	4	17	11	0	1	+6%
Columbia-Shuswap D	2	0	2	0	0	0	-33%
Columbia-Shuswap E	6	1	3	2	0	0	0%
Columbia-Shuswap F	11	5	4	2	0	0	-8%
Enderby	9	3	4	2	0	0	+13%
North Okanagan B	5	3	0	1	1	0	0%
North Okanagan C	15	4	3	6	0	2	+15%
North Okanagan F	13	4	3	4	2	0	+8%
Okanagan (Part) 1	1	0	0	1	0	0	-50%
Salmon Arm	71	11	36	18	5	1	+3%
Sicamous	18	4	8	6	0	0	0%
Spallumcheen	8	0	4	4	0	0	+33%
Switsemalph	6	1	3	1	1	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola L (Grasslands)	5	3	0	2	0	0	-17%
Thompson-Nicola M (Beautiful Nicola Valley - North)	3	2	0	1	0	0	0%
Thompson-Nicola O (Lower North Thompson)	3	3	0	0	0	0	+200%
Thompson-Nicola P (Rivers and the Peaks)	7	2	3	1	1	0	0%
Vernon	190	23	119	34	9	5	+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	Large Business
Transportation	4812	Non-scheduled air transportation [4812]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Transportation	4821	Rail transportation [4821]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Transportation	4832	Inland water transportation [4832]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Transportation	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Transportation	4855	Charter bus industry [4855]	1	0%	75	0	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	7	0%	54	7	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	4	+33%	15	4	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	2	0%	10	2	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	3	0%	32	3	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7112	Spectator sports [7112]	1	0%	7	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	4	+33%	10	4	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	4	+33%	54	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7131	Amusement parks and arcades [7131]	2	-33%	37	1	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	2	-33%	77	1	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	32	-3%	449	26	6	0
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	20	-5%	301	15	5	0
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	17	0%	247	13	4	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	98	+3%	1,651	77	19	1

Parks

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

1.3m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 133% from 544.1k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 39% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

23 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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