Florida industry export

Florida restaurants, hotels and tourism businesses by county

The export covers lodging, food service and travel businesses registered in Florida, defined by NAICS 2022 (72, 5615). For scale: 144,016 businesses in Florida per the U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 + Nonemployer Statistics 2024: 50,698 with employees in 2023 and 93,318 without employees in 2024; that is official statistics. Our Florida database is active, but per-industry record counts are still being compiled. Say whether you need restaurants, lodging or travel businesses, and whether one row per company or per location matters to you.

The industry at a glance

CBP 72, 5615 + NES 72, 5615

codes counted: CBP (NAICS 2017) + NES (NAICS 2022)

144,016

businesses in Florida (Census CBP 2023 + NES 2024)

on request

price for your selection

4,129,182

active business entities registered in Florida

Data as of October 15, 2026. Industry size: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 + Nonemployer Statistics 2024: businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023, establishments, NAICS 2017 codes 72, 5615) plus businesses without paid employees (NES 2024, NAICS 2022 codes 72, 5615); not our dataset. Statewide figure for all industries: Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics, as of July 8, 2026; not our dataset. NAICS titles: 72 Accommodation and Food Services; 5615 Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (U.S. Census Bureau).

What the industry covers in Florida

The industry combines NAICS sector 72, Accommodation and Food Services (hotels, motels, RV parks, restaurants, bars, caterers and mobile food services), with NAICS industry group 5615, Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (travel agencies, tour operators and reservation services).

For a business list, the structure of the industry has a practical consequence: a license belongs to an establishment at a location, while the corporate record belongs to the legal entity that owns it. One company can hold licenses for many restaurants, and the name on the door may be a fictitious (“doing business as”) name, not the name of the registered entity. The planned export is built on the legal entity; matching it to establishments is one of the harder tasks for the Florida dataset.

Restaurants and lodging businesses open, close and change hands, so the as-of date of the data matters for this industry.

Contact coverage: our expectation

Our expectation, which is an assumption and not a finding from data: We expect restaurants and hotels to publish a phone number for guests far more often than an email address for business inquiries. A reservation address is not a channel for sales offers. Per-industry contact counts are still being compiled; once measured, they will replace this note.

Example of a request

We are looking for hotels, motels and restaurants in Monroe, Miami-Dade and Collier counties with a phone number, to offer them commercial laundry services. Franchise headquarters outside Florida should not be included. Please state what you can deliver, the price and the as-of date of the data.

This is an example only, not a promise of a record count.

Official statistics

How many restaurants and hotels are there in Florida?

County Business Patterns, the source for businesses with employees, counts locations, not companies: a chain with 40 restaurants is 40 establishments. A list with one row per registered business will therefore be shorter than these figures for multi-location operators.

NAICS 72: 128,847 businesses
Accommodation and Food Services. 48,853 with employees (CBP 2023) + 79,994 without employees (NES 2024)
NAICS 5615: 15,169 businesses
Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services. 1,845 with employees (CBP 2023) + 13,324 without employees (NES 2024)
NAICS 722: 112,461 businesses
Food Services and Drinking Places. 44,609 with employees (CBP 2023) + 67,852 without employees (NES 2024)
NAICS 7225: 60,987 businesses
Restaurants and Other Eating Places (full-service, limited-service, cafeterias, snack bars). 39,216 with employees (CBP 2023) + 21,771 without employees (NES 2024)
NAICS 721: 16,386 businesses
Accommodation. 4,244 with employees (CBP 2023) + 12,142 without employees (NES 2024)
NAICS 7211: 12,049 businesses
Traveler Accommodation (hotels, motels, casino hotels, bed-and-breakfast inns). 3,818 with employees (CBP 2023) + 8,231 without employees (NES 2024)

Counties with the most businesses (CBP + NES)

Miami-Dade (30,805), Broward (16,440), Orange (11,532), Palm Beach (9,613), Hillsborough (8,406). Figures for all 67 counties are in the table Florida businesses by county.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2024 (methodology). Each row adds establishments with paid employees (County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 2017) and businesses without paid employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2024, NAICS 2022, which leaves out businesses with less than $1,000 in receipts except in construction). These are Census Bureau statistics, not counts from our dataset.

Hotel, restaurant and travel licenses in Florida

Division of Hotels and Restaurants (DBPR)

Public lodging establishments and public food service establishments are licensed under Chapter 509 of the Florida Statutes (Fla. Stat. § 509.241). The responsible body is the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (Fla. Stat. § 509.013), which also inspects the establishments (Fla. Stat. § 509.032).

Food permits (FDACS)

Food businesses outside the scope of Chapter 509, such as grocery stores and food processors, need a food permit from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Fla. Stat. § 500.12). Which agency licenses a given food business depends on what it does, so no single agency's records cover “all food businesses.”

Sellers of travel (FDACS)

Sellers of travel must register annually with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Fla. Stat. § 559.928); the terms are defined in Fla. Stat. § 559.927.

Checking a license

A hotel or restaurant license can be looked up in the DBPR license search. An export never replaces that check.

What the export will not contain

  • One row per restaurant or hotel location (the plan is one row per registered business)
  • Inspection results, seating capacity or room counts
  • Cuisine type, price level or ratings
  • Vacation rentals owned by individuals without a registered entity
  • Consent to marketing or do-not-call screening

Use of the data

Who buys a Florida restaurant and hotel list

Request an export

Food and beverage distributors

Selecting restaurants and caterers by county for route planning. The principal address may differ from the kitchen location.

Hotel suppliers

Linen, amenities, furniture or maintenance offers to lodging businesses in a destination.

Point-of-sale and booking software

Reaching operators with payment, reservation or scheduling tools.

Staffing agencies

Identifying hospitality employers by region before peak season.

File, region, price

Format, county filter and price

One CSV, Excel or JSON file with 15 columns (layout and sample file), limited to the counties you name out of Florida's 67; the county is derived from the principal address.

One-time industry export

Prices are quoted in USD.

Price on request

  • Hospitality, Restaurants and Tourism by NAICS 2022
  • Selection by county and contact field
  • One-time delivery, no subscription

FAQ

Questions about Florida restaurant and hotel data

The planned export has one row per registered business, not per location. A company that operates several restaurants appears once, at its principal address. If you need locations, say so; whether they can be delivered depends on how well license records can be matched.

Chapter 509 classifies a vacation rental as a transient public lodging establishment (Fla. Stat. § 509.242), and the owner may be an individual rather than a company. The planned export covers registered businesses only; individual owners without a registered entity are outside its scope.

Because a restaurant often does business under a fictitious name, while the corporate record shows the legal entity. Florida requires fictitious names to be registered with the Division of Corporations (Fla. Stat. § 865.09); we plan to link the two sets of records, but the link will not succeed for every record.

Yes, as drinking places within NAICS 722. Alcoholic beverage licensing is a separate matter that the planned export does not show.

The size of the industry in Florida is 144,016 businesses in Florida per the U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 + Nonemployer Statistics 2024: 50,698 with employees in 2023 and 93,318 without employees in 2024 (source); that is the official market scale, not a count of our delivered records. Our per-industry record count is still being compiled; contact us for the current count for Hospitality, Restaurants and Tourism. For orientation: Active business entities registered with the Florida Division of Corporations (corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and trusts) – 4,129,182 as of July 8, 2026 (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics). That figure covers all industries and counts registered entities whether or not they operate. The Census figures on this page give a sense of scale for Hospitality, Restaurants and Tourism.

Federal law does not require prior consent for commercial email to businesses, but every message must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act (FTC compliance guide); sales calls and texts are restricted more tightly by federal rules and by Fla. Stat. § 501.059. An export contains no consent. Our data is not screened against any do-not-call list, including the National Do Not Call Registry and the Florida Do Not Call list. How Fla. Stat. § 501.059(4) applies to business records that include phone numbers is a question for an attorney, and no Florida dataset with phone numbers will be released until that question is resolved. The compliance of a campaign is your responsibility. The rules are explained in Cold outreach rules in Florida; this is not legal advice.

From public sources: corporate filings of the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), the license and registration records named on this page and the companies' own websites (sources and methodology). The file is a UTF-8 CSV or, on request, XLSX or JSON; a sample with fictitious businesses shows the 15 columns.

Looking for a list of Florida hospitality businesses?

Name the type of business and the counties. We will reply with what we can deliver, the price and the as-of date.