{
  "id": "conference-delegate-days",
  "geography": "Victoria Conference Centre (City of Victoria)",
  "scope": "city",
  "period": "Jan–Jun 2026 (year to date)",
  "period_start": "2026-01-01",
  "period_end": "2026-06-28",
  "refresh_frequency": "Quarterly (City economic dashboard)",
  "category": "Downtown",
  "title": "Conference delegate days at the Victoria Conference Centre",
  "levels": [
    "People and businesses",
    "Municipal (streets, City facilities)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many delegate days did conferences at the City-owned Victoria Conference Centre bring from January to the latest quarter, compared with the same months a year earlier?",
  "value": 52085,
  "display_value": "52,085",
  "unit": "delegate days, Jan–Jun 2026",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
    "previous_value": 50676,
    "change_percent": 2.8
  },
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More delegate days means more conference visitors coming to Victoria.",
  "trend_basis": "52,085 from January to June 2026 against 50,676 in the same months of 2025 (+2.8%), adding the quarterly totals in the City’s economic dashboards (Q1: 2025 18,012, 2026 15,429 (dashboard Q1 2026); Q2: 2025 32,664, 2026 36,656 (dashboard Q2 2026)).",
  "since_text": "Latest quarter (Q2): 36,656 against 32,664 a year earlier.",
  "caveats": [
    "A delegate day is one non-resident attendee at a conference for one day, as the City’s dashboard defines it: 100 delegates at a three-day conference make 300 delegate days.",
    "The dashboard does not name a separate source for this figure; its footer says all data are gathered by the City of Victoria except where noted. The Victoria Conference Centre is owned by the City.",
    "Conferences are booked years ahead and vary in size, so one quarter can swing the total."
  ],
  "calc_steps": [
    "Q1: 2025 18,012, 2026 15,429 (dashboard Q1 2026)",
    "Q2: 2025 32,664, 2026 36,656 (dashboard Q2 2026)"
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
      "value": 50676
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2026",
      "value": 52085
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "dashboards": [
      {
        "quarter": "Q1 2026",
        "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q1-2026-finalpdf",
        "reads": "Delegate days 2025: 18,012 2026:15,429"
      },
      {
        "quarter": "Q2 2026",
        "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
        "reads": "l occupancy YYJ Airport passengers 2025: 32,664 2026: 36,656"
      }
    ],
    "locator": "City economic dashboards Q1 2026 and Q2 2026, “Tourism”: “Delegate days”, quarter totals (each gives the quarter and the same quarter a year earlier)",
    "reads": "Q1 2026 dashboard: Delegate days 2025: 18,012 2026:15,429; Q2 2026 dashboard: l occupancy YYJ Airport passengers 2025: 32,664 2026: 36,656",
    "page_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026#page=5",
    "page": 5,
    "publisher_page": "https://www.victoria.ca/building-business/economic-development"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "Delegate days 2025: 18,012 2026:15,429",
    "l occupancy YYJ Airport passengers 2025: 32,664 2026: 36,656"
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-08-21",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:28:00Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "activity",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 2.8% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
      "value": 50676,
      "text": "vs Jan–Jun 2025: +2.8%"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "same",
    "label": "About the same",
    "arrow": "▲",
    "rel": 2.8,
    "delta": null,
    "vs": "Jan–Jun 2025",
    "cur": "Jan–Jun 2026 (year to date)",
    "why": "The change is 2.8% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "2.8%",
    "one_year": "+2.8%",
    "long_why": "The series starts in Jan–Jun 2025, so there is no reading longer than one year yet."
  },
  "data_published_basis": "file dated",
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 4,
    "rung_name": "Context measure: no target expected",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "context",
        "label": "Context measure: no target expected",
        "area": null,
        "source": null,
        "documents_checked": null,
        "text": "Context measure: no target expected. A count of activity at a City-owned venue, shown as activity. The City’s dashboard sets no target for it."
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "no_target_expected": "A count of activity at a City-owned venue, shown as activity. The City’s dashboard sets no target for it.",
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": null,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "COV",
      "name": "City of Victoria Council",
      "decides": "Owns the Victoria Conference Centre and decides its services and budget in the financial plan.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "cc8",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 8",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_02#section8"
        },
        {
          "key": "cc165",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 165",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_06#section165"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Conference organizers decide where to meet."
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "City of Victoria Council",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "same",
    "label": "About the same"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 7,
    "text": "No target expected",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A count of activity at a City-owned venue, shown as activity. The City’s dashboard sets no target for it."
  }
}