Services

​This sector includes companies that are primarily engaged in providing a wide variety of services for individuals, business and government establishments, and other organizations. These services encompass commercial services and supplies, as well as transportation services. Commercial services include printing, employment, environmental, advertising services, etc., while transportation includes airlines, couriers, marine, road and rail, and other transportation infrastructure and services, such as parking, stevedoring, harbour services, navigation services, airport operation, and cargo warehousing and storage for goods and postal services. Waste management includes sewage collection, treatment, and disposal through sewage treatment facilities. Also included in this major sector are hotels and lodging establishments, as well as restaurants and other leisure facilities. Other services that appear under this sector are media and entertainment, and other establishments providing miscellaneous services, (e.g., repair, travel and education, etc.).Wholesale trade includes the resale of new or used goods to businesses or institutional users (including government), while retailers sell merchandise to final consumers for personal or household consumption. Retailers include department stores and shops, motor vehicle retailers and service outlets, and speciality outfits such as mail-order houses, vending machine operators and consumer cooperatives.