Here are the recent numbers: http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Economy/EconomicAccounts/SatelliteAccounts.aspx http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/Stati

Here are the recent numbers: http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Economy/EconomicAccounts/SatelliteAccounts.aspx http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Economy/Eco... Forestry is about the size of tech ($14 billion) which is twice tourism. To put it into perspective, the BC government spends and collects $50 billion each year. Financial services, real estate, retail, and other services are big. I doubt tourism is or ever was more than 3% of the economy, except maybe in 1986 and 2010.