Accommodation and food services in Canada

This page gathers the figures we hold on accommodation and food services in Canada. Each section names its own source.

Each source groups industries its own way, so the edges of accommodation and food services differ a little from section to section.

Businesses that started and stopped

Started and stopped, 2023
  1. Started11.3%All private sector industries12.3%
  2. Stopped10.2%All private sector industries11.9%

Each is a share of the industry's businesses with employees in 2023.

Statistics Canada counts businesses with employees. A business counts as stopped when it no longer has employees. These are Statistics Canada's own rates.

Source: adapted from Statistics Canada, Business Dynamics measures, by industry (33-10-0164-01), 2023. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

What costs did

What earnings and raw material prices did in this industry. Each comes from its own Statistics Canada series and grouping of industries. Earnings move with the mix of jobs and hours as well as with pay, so they are not a pay rate.

What costs did, the year to June 2026
  1. Earnings+5.8%

Each bar comes from its own Statistics Canada series, named below.

Source: adapted from Statistics Canada, Employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted (14-10-0223-01), June 2025 and June 2026. Change computed by onestepright. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

No Statistics Canada price series measures this industry's inputs closely enough to show.

Prices businesses expect to charge

In the third quarter of 2026, 34.6% of accommodation and food services businesses expected to raise their prices over the next three months. Across all businesses, 20.6% did.

Statistics Canada asked businesses with employees. Each business counts once, whatever its size.

Source: adapted from Statistics Canada, Business or organization expectations over the next three months, third quarter of 2026 (33-10-1178-01), 2026Q3. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Adapted from Statistics Canada under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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