Tourism employment information is sourced from Statistics Canada. The industries included in the tourism sector are those that would cease to exist or would operate at a significantly reduced level of activity as a direct result of an absence of tourism.
August 2026 marks the third consecutive month of year-over-year increases in tourism employment in Nova Scotia.
With the exception of February, the unemployment rate in Nova Scotia’s tourism industry is lower in each of the first eight months of 2026, compared with 2025.
August marks the first month of 2026 in which an increase is observed in the number of hours worked by tourism employees in Nova Scotia, compared with 2025.
The food & beverage category has the highest tourism employment, supplying jobs to 24,200 workers in Nova Scotia, although employment in this category declined by 3,600 jobs in 2025.
The transportation sector saw the largest increase in tourism employment in 2025, up by 1,500 jobs compared with 2024.
