Tourism economy

Tourism businesses and locally retained economic benefit.

123 Micro Businesses

▲ 2% from 121

1–19 employees

29 Small & Medium Business

▲ 4% from 28

20–99 employees

4 Large Business

▼ 0% from 4

100+ employees

3 Communities

Published employer locations for contributing Census subdivisions.

Community	Total	Accommodation	Food Beverage	Recreation Entertainment	Transportation	Travel Services	Change
Capilano 5	22	0	17	3	0	2	-8%
North Vancouver	348	16	166	138	12	16	+1%
West Vancouver	169	15	85	55	8	6	+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	4853	Taxi and limousine service [4853]	3	+50%	12	3	0	0
Transportation	4855	Charter bus industry [4855]	1	0%	15	1	0	0
Transportation	4872	Scenic and sightseeing transportation, water [4872]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	5121	Motion picture and video industries [5121]	23	0%	74	23	0	0
Transportation	5321	Automotive equipment rental and leasing [5321]	2	0%	3	1	0	0
Travel services	5615	Travel arrangement and reservation services [5615]	6	0%	39	7	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7111	Performing arts companies [7111]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7115	Independent artists, writers and performers [7115]	12	0%	42	12	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7121	Heritage institutions [7121]	1	0%	0	0	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7132	Gambling industries [7132]	1	0%	3	1	0	0
Recreation and entertainment	7139	Other amusement and recreation industries [7139]	18	0%	1,578	12	5	3
Accommodation	7211	Traveller accommodation [7211]	10	+25%	311	7	3	1
Accommodation	7212	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps [7212]	1		3	1	0	0
Food and beverage services	7224	Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) [7224]	2	0%	49	1	1	0
Food and beverage services	7225	Full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places [7225]	75	+1%	1,434	54	19	1

Parks

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

2m BC Parks attendance 2023/24

▼ 5% from 2.1m

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/

West Vancouver-Capilano