Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

127 Micro Businesses

▲ 2% from 125

1–19 employees

32 Small & Medium Business

▲ 10% from 29

20–99 employees

1 Large Business

▼ 0% from 1

100+ employees

3 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Semiahmoo	0	0	0	0	0	0
Surrey	1,609	58	1,168	203	134	46	+1%
White Rock	72	2	43	26	0	1	+4%

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	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	5	+25%	13	5	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	15	+7%	35	14	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	1	0%	3	1	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	4	+33%	12	3	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	1		3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	4	0%	10	4	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	1	0%	7	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	3	1	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	14	+17%	105	13	1
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	5	0%	81	3	2
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	2	0%	7	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	104	-2%	1,855	76	28

Parks

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

219.6k BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▲ 577% from 32.5k

Latest complete fiscal-year attendance reported in person-days; unavailable values are not zero. 100% of parks reported attendance.

Parks

1 provincial park.

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/

Surrey-White Rock