NAICS 713110Canadian industry · 6-digitlocal market1 market record

Amusement and theme parks

SoftwareAttractions & Family Entertainment Centre Software

This Canadian industry comprises establishments, known as amusement or theme parks, primarily engaged in operating a variety of attractions, such as mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits, refreshment stands, and picnic grounds. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 171
Under 10 employeesA: 33%
Establishments · USA: 687
Employment · USA: 166,135
Payroll · USA: $5.1B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–42816%

5–92816%

10–192716%

20–495130%

50–99169%

100–199106%

200–49974%

500+42%

Of 171 Canadian establishments with employees, 33% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario6236%

Quebec3219%

British Columbia2615%

Alberta1911%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation, US · opened 2020

81.3%

1 year

70.3%

3 years

57.1%

5 years

40.8%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 713, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 713 Amusement, gambling and recreation industries

Facility businesses — gyms, golf, ski, marinas, entertainment centres — with high fixed cost and revenue that follows weather, seasons and discretionary income. Gambling is a licensed exception.

Who sets the price: The operator, within what a local catchment will pay.
The software it runs on: Membership and class booking, tee sheets, point of sale, gaming management.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.

Filed above — wider than this industry

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 7131 Amusement parks and arcades

Family Entertainment CentresStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

Axe throwing, trampoline parks, indoor golf and arcades share one arc: a novelty period with strong margins, then a plateau as the format is copied locally and the equipment ages. The build cost is front-loaded into a lease that outlasts the novelty. The formats that survive add food and beverage, which turns the business into hospitality with an attraction attached.

NAICS 71315 vendors named8 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreened

Attractions & Family Entertainment Centre SoftwareOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

Incumbent accesso (AIM: ACSO) for large theme and water parks; ROLLER for FECs and active-play venues

The large-park end is held by a listed specialist that is shrinking, and the venue-sized end has already been taken by a well-funded cloud challenger. Filed under 713110 (amusement and theme parks); the same software serves 713120 (amusement arcades) and 713990 (other amusement and recreation: trampoline, climbing, bowling-adjacent and play centres). This is not the event-ticketing market on the 7113 record. There, Ticketmaster earns consumer fees against venue-exclusivity contracts and the venue barely pays for software. An amusement park, water park, trampoline park or family entertainment centre (FEC) sells admissions that are timed, dated, repeat and often bundled into season passes and memberships. It then earns as much again inside the gate: food and drink, game cards, birthday parties, lockers, photos. The software runs the whole operating day, from the online store and timed-entry capacity through waivers, turnstiles, POS, party booking and the arcade's cashless card readers. Nobody sells this venue's demand back to it, so the operator owns the customer and pays the vendor per ticket, per transaction or by subscription. accesso (AIM: ACSO) is the incumbent for large parks. 2025 revenue was $155.1M (+1.8%). 84.6% of it was 'repeatable', defined as a fixed amount per ticket sold or a percentage of the venue's revenue [A]. It claims 1,100+ destinations and venues in 31 countries [C]. The business is not growing. The Board guides FY2026 to about $146M, and H1 2026 Guest Experience (virtual queuing) revenue fell 41.7% after one major customer discontinued LoQueue and another stayed only on revised terms [A]. Customer concentration is visible, but no entrant can attack it from below: a 42-park operator like the merged Six Flags/Cedar Fair [B] buys on integration and scale. Gateway Ticketing (Galaxy, founded 1988, 500+ clients claimed [C]) is the on-premise alternative at this tier. The venue-sized end belongs to ROLLER. The Melbourne cloud platform for FECs, trampoline and climbing parks, bowling and play centres claims 3,500+ venues [C]. It raised US$50m led by Insight Partners in November 2023 [B], on top of a $7M Series B led by Acadian Software in 2018 [B]. CenterEdge (US FECs, own payments since 2019), Semnox (Parafait, 2,800+ sites claimed) and the cashless-card specialists Embed and Intercard surround it, and Convious ($20M Series A in equity and debt [B]) and Clorian are taking European e-commerce and cultural ticketing. Lock-in is physical as well as digital. Card readers sit on every arcade game, outstanding card balances and season-pass holders live in the system, turnstiles and gates are wired to it, and payments are now being bundled in (accessoPay with Adyen live in 2026 [A]; CenterEdge Payments [C]). Every vendor is moving to earn on card volume, so the software price trends toward the payments take. Incumbent vulnerability decides it. accesso's weakness is real, but it sits with the largest operators, who buy on scale. The cloud-native, all-in-one wedge for smaller venues was ROLLER's, and Insight's money has already been spent defending it.

NAICS 71311010 vendors named7 sourced figuresOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 10

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
ROLLERPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	1/10
AccessoPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	2/10
CenterEdge SoftwarePrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	3/10
ClorianPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	4/10
ConviousPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	5/10
EmbedPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	6/10
Gateway Ticketing SystemsPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	7/10
IntercardPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	8/10
Semnox SolutionsPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	9/10
VentrataPrivate	Amusement and theme parks713110	—	10/10

Who works here

The occupations employed in Arts, entertainment and recreation, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Occupations related to museums and art galleries Mostly one sector 63.2%

Support occupations in accommodation, travel, tourism and amusement services Mostly one sector 58.2%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 51%

Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness Mostly one sector 49.8%

Athletes, coaches, referees and related occupations Mostly one sector 45.3%

Managers in art, culture, recreation and sport Mostly one sector 44.1%

Support occupations in art and culture Mostly one sector 41.2%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 13.7%

Librarians, archivists, conservators and curators One industry 10.4%

Technical occupations in motion pictures, broadcasting and the performing arts Mostly one sector 5.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 2.9%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 2.9%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 1.7%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 1.2%

Other technical trades Across the economy 1.2%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 1%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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