Victoria indicatorsAll measures Business and jobs
Hotel occupancy
85.7% of rooms occupied
No target expected. This is a context measure. A measure of visitor activity, shown for context. Targets and comparisons
Down 2.4 points in a year.
Source: City of Victoria (Destination Greater Victoria data). We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
Apr–Jun 2026 Of rooms occupied, by quarter
- 85.7% of rooms occupied
Targets and comparisons
Context measure: no target expected
Context measure: no target expected. A measure of visitor activity, shown for context.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Apr–Jun 2026 | 85.7% |
| Apr–Jun 2025 | 88.1% |
Who decides
No government decides this directly. The bodies below decide the rules around it.
Show all 1 bodies and the laws
No government decides this directly. Visitors and hotels decide.
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| City of Victoria Council | Decides zoning and development permits, and regulates building by bylaw. | Local Government Act, s. 479 Local Government Act, s. 490 Community Charter, s. 8 (3) (l) |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52.
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- 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.
One more limit
- Occupancy is seasonal, so each quarter is compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Not measured yet in business and jobs: empty storefronts downtown, cleanliness and needle pick-up requests. See all 18 gaps
In plain words
The share of hotel rooms occupied in the quarter, as the City’s quarterly economic dashboard reports it from Destination Greater Victoria.
How we decide “Steady”
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.
85.7% in Q2 2026 against 88.1% in Q2 2025, as printed in the City’s economic dashboard (source: Destination Greater Victoria).
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. It shows how busy the visitor economy is. It is shown for context, without a better or worse label.
- 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.
Which places
Area: Greater Victoria hotels
Hotels in Destination Greater Victoria’s occupancy survey, as reported by the City.
Included
- Hotels that report to Destination Greater Victoria
Not included
- Short-term rentals and hotels that do not report
Official definition
How the agency describes it: Greater Victoria hotels (Destination Greater Victoria’s survey).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Quarterly (City economic dashboard); latest release Aug 21, 2026 (date of the agency’s file)
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:28 PM B.C. time
Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026 (Destination Greater Victoria). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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