NAICS 7212Industry group · 4-digitlocal market1 market record

Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds, hunting and fishing camps, and various types of vacation and adventure camps. These establishments cater to outdoor enthusiasts and are characterized by the type of accommodation and by the nature and the range of recreational facilities and activities provided to their clients. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 2,947
Under 10 employeesA: 66%

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

1–41,27543%

5–966823%

10–1955219%

20–4932111%

50–991074%

100–199211%

200–49930%

500+0—

Of 2,947 Canadian establishments with employees, 66% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario83028%

Quebec77826%

British Columbia40814%

Alberta2458%

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

Accommodation and Food Services, US · opened 2020

85.5%

1 year

72.1%

3 years

59.3%

5 years

41.6%

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.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 721, 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 721 Accommodation services

A real-estate asset with an operating business inside it. Independents pay for distribution through online agencies; campgrounds and RV parks are the lower-capital, land-rich variant.

Who sets the price: Nightly rates set against local competition and online travel agencies' commission.
The software it runs on: Property management, channel management and revenue 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.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 721211

RV Parks & CampgroundsStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

A Canadian season is short, the revenue is weather-correlated, and the capital sits in serviced sites, septic and power that must be paid for whether or not July is wet. The real opportunity — ageing owners with no succession selling below replacement cost — is genuine, and it is a land acquisition play requiring patient capital rather than an operating business a new entrant can bootstrap. The listed comparable shows which half of that capital still earns. At Equity LifeStyle Properties, the continent's largest owner, FY2025 base rent from annual RV sites rose 4.7% while seasonal fell 7.5% and transient fell 3.0% — and inside its core portfolio the nightly and seasonal lines fell 8.5% and 9.9%, which ELS attributes partly to fewer returning Canadian guests [A]. Annual sites are a land lease with a cottage on it; the nightly business is the one a new owner is actually buying, and it is the one contracting.

NAICS 7212115 vendors named11 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.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Property management, channel management and revenue management.

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 · 4

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
Sun CommunitiesNYSE:SUI	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and campgrounds721211	$2.3B	1/4
Equity Lifestyle PropertiesNYSE:ELS	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and campgrounds721211	$1.5B	2/4
Kampgrounds of AmericaPrivate	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and campgrounds721211	—	3/4
Parkbridge Lifestyle CommunitiesPrivate	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and campgrounds721211	—	4/4

Who works here

The occupations employed in Accommodation and food services, 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

Managers in food service and accommodation One industry 87.6%

Occupations in food and beverage service One industry 84.1%

Food support occupations One industry 75.3%

Specialized occupations in services Mostly one sector 68.6%

Cooks, butchers and bakers Mostly one sector 60.2%

Service supervisors Mostly one sector 49.3%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 10.2%

Cashiers and other sales support occupations One industry 8.6%

Support occupations in accommodation, travel, tourism and amusement services Mostly one sector 7.3%

Taxi, personal service and delivery service drivers Mostly one sector 5.2%

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 4.3%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 1.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 1.5%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 1.4%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 1.3%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 1.2%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 1.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 1.2%

Administrative, property and payroll officers 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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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 7212, and 4 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
72121	Recreational vehicle (RV) parks and recreational camps	2,947	RV Parks & Campgrounds

Alongside it, under 721 Accommodation services

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
7211	Traveller accommodation	7,387	Hotel Property Management Systems Small Motel & Roadside Accommodation Acquisition Short-Term Rental Management Software+1 more
7213	Rooming and boarding houses	332	Rooming & Co-Living Houses