Enchant Christmas: KCK's newest holiday experience
Enchant Christmas is a North American based company that currently designs and hosts immersive attractions called Enchant Christmas—the cornerstone of these events are the World’s Largest Christmas Light Maze. The company was one of British Columbia’s fastest growing in 2019 and was America’s Fastest Growing Live Entertainment Concept in 2022. Today, it continues to expand to new markets across the United States.
Founded in 2016 by Canadian entrepreneur Kevin Johnston, the company has attracted over 4.5 million guests to their holiday market and light mazes in major cities across North America. Enchant Christmas began as a small business for two 19-year-old friends, Cam Walker and Kevin Johnston, in 2008. They pursued a successful trial season installing Christmas lights for neighbors and eventually grew their client list to include major malls and ski resorts like Park Royal, Pacific Centre and Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, B.C. Eventually, the installations became attractions of their own and the idea for Enchant Christmas light mazes and markets was born.
The first Enchant Christmas event was held in Olympic Village in 2016 and attracted over 230,000 people. The event drew so much traffic that the team was told by the City of Vancouver they wouldn’t be able to return to the site the following year. As a solution, Enchant Christmas partnered with Globe Life Field and the Texas Rangers to use their parking lot in 2017. In 2018, Enchant Christmas was invited to move the Texas and Seattle shows into the stadium in the MLB off-season. Since then, the attraction continues to grow year over year and in 2023 will be held at seven different locations across the United States with Legends Field in Kansas City, Kansas, as the newest location. Today, Enchant Christmas is a spectacular annual event produced on the playing fields of major league sports stadiums and iconic outdoor spaces with plans for seven events in 2023.
EVENTS/MILESTONES
- 2016 – Enchant’s inaugural event in Vancouver, B.C., which hosted approximately 230K guests.
- 2017 – In search of dry weather and better parking, Enchant discovered the parking lot for the Texas Rangers. This event in Dallas hosted approximately 250K guests.
- 2018 – Operated two shows inside Major League Baseball stadiums in Dallas and Seattle. Collectively hosted approximately 427K guests.
- 2019 – Hosted over 1 million guests. A major leap forward with more magical show experiences now in three locations: Seattle, Washington D.C., and Tampa, Florida.
- 2020 – With public health and safety top of mind, Enchant created digital experiences including the Santa Calls app, which offered personalized calls with Santa.
- 2021 – As the world slowly reopened, so did Enchant with four event locations in: Dallas, Las Vegas, Tampa and Washington, D.C. These events collectively hosted 984K guests.
- 2022 – Much opportunity led to 9 locations in 8 cities, plus the unveiling of a third original maze adventure. 2022 event locations included: Dallas; Las Vegas; Tampa; Washington, D.C.; San Jose and Sacramento, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Nashville, Tennessee. Collectively hosted 1.6M guests.
- In 2023, Enchant will debut its spectacular event in Kansas City, Kansas, at Legends Field, among six other markets, which will provide Christmas joy to an estimated 1.5M guests.
