Tourism Employment in Rural Canada

Statistics Canada publishes the 'Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin'.  In 2005, they looked at tourism employment in rural Canada, finding that:

• tourism employment represents about 3% of total employment in predominantly rural areas
• fastest growth rates in rural tourism employment are occuring in rural areas adjacent to metropolitan areas
• that the fastest growth rates in predominantly rural region tourism employment (not near a metropolitan area) were recorded in the Atlantic provinces
• in most provinces, rural tourism employment increased at a faster rate than total rural employment - particularly in the Atalantic provinces; this was not true in Alberta or Quebec.

Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca'pub/21-006-x/21-006-x2004008-eng.pdf