{
  "id": "hotel-occupancy",
  "geography": "Greater Victoria hotels (Destination Greater Victoria’s survey)",
  "scope": "region",
  "period": "Q2 2026 (April to June)",
  "period_start": "2026-04-01",
  "period_end": "2026-06-28",
  "refresh_frequency": "Quarterly (City economic dashboard)",
  "category": "Downtown",
  "title": "Hotel occupancy, Greater Victoria",
  "levels": [
    "Hotels and visitors",
    "Municipal and provincial tourism programs"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Out of all hotel rooms available in the quarter, what share were occupied?",
  "value": 85.7,
  "display_value": "85.7%",
  "unit": "of rooms occupied, Q2 2026",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Q2 2025",
    "previous_value": 88.1,
    "change_percent": -2.4,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "context",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a better or worse label: occupancy follows visitor demand and the number of rooms.",
  "trend_basis": "85.7% in Q2 2026 against 88.1% in Q2 2025, as printed in the City’s economic dashboard (source: Destination Greater Victoria).",
  "since_text": "Q1: 66.4% (2025: 63.47%); Q2: 85.7% (2025: 88.1%).",
  "caveats": [
    "The City of Victoria republishes hotel occupancy in its quarterly economic dashboard and credits it to Destination Greater Victoria, the region’s tourism marketing organization, which is funded by a hotel room tax and is not a public body. No public body publishes hotel occupancy for Greater Victoria, so this source is used, with this note.",
    "Occupancy is seasonal, so each quarter is compared with the same quarter a year earlier.",
    "The dashboard does not say which hotels are in the survey."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "Q2 2025",
      "value": 88.1
    },
    {
      "period": "Q2 2026",
      "value": 85.7
    }
  ],
  "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": "2025 63.47% 2025 384,961; 2026 66.40% 2026 416,607"
      },
      {
        "quarter": "Q2 2026",
        "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
        "reads": "2025 88.1% 2025 509,789; 2026 85.7% 2026 516,332"
      }
    ],
    "locator": "City economic dashboard Q2 2026, page 5, “Tourism”: “Hotel occupancy”, Q2 totals for 2025 and 2026 (SOURCE: Destination Greater Victoria)",
    "reads": "Q1 2026 dashboard: 2025 63.47% 2025 384,961; 2026 66.40% 2026 416,607; Q2 2026 dashboard: 2025 88.1% 2025 509,789; 2026 85.7% 2026 516,332",
    "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": [
    "2025 63.47% 2025 384,961; 2026 66.40% 2026 416,607",
    "2025 88.1% 2025 509,789; 2026 85.7% 2026 516,332"
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-08-21",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:28:00Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026 (Destination Greater Victoria). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "ownership_note": "Figure from Destination Greater Victoria, a tourism marketing organization, as republished by the City of Victoria.",
  "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": "Occupancy follows visitor demand and the number of rooms; it is shown for context.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Q2 2025",
      "value": 88.1,
      "text": "vs Q2 2025: -2.4 points"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "context",
    "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": "steady",
    "label": "Steady",
    "arrow": "▼",
    "rel": -2.7241770715096387,
    "delta": -2.3999999999999915,
    "vs": "Q2 2025",
    "cur": "Q2 2026 (April to June)",
    "why": "Occupancy follows visitor demand and the number of rooms; it is shown for context. The change is 2.7% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "2.4 pt",
    "one_year": "−2.4 pt",
    "long_why": "The series starts in Q2 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 measure of visitor activity, shown for context."
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "no_target_expected": "A measure of visitor activity, shown for context.",
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": null,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Visitors and hotels decide."
    },
    {
      "body": "COV",
      "name": "City of Victoria Council",
      "decides": "Decides zoning and development permits, and regulates building by bylaw.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "lga479",
          "label": "Local Government Act, s. 479",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/r15001_14#section479"
        },
        {
          "key": "lga490",
          "label": "Local Government Act, s. 490",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/r15001_14#section490"
        },
        {
          "key": "cc8l",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 8 (3) (l)",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_02#section8"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "No government decides this directly",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "steady",
    "label": "Steady"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 7,
    "text": "No target expected",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A measure of visitor activity, shown for context."
  }
}