Just recently, a local beach-side touring site has become a static caravan park. This is not the first one in this area that has stopped taking touring vans. Is this the way things are going? More money to be earned from static vans?
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I'm not sure about losing, but certainly the pitches for tourers is diminishing.
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I think sites are thinking ahead to when people do not find a decent towcar due these governments desire to go electric, and the bigger demand for statics as touring dies out over the years. Three sites we have been on so far this year have replaced touring pitches to statics since last year.
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Even the clubs seem to be moving more and more towards fixed accommodation, CAMC tend to claim they are sited on areas unsuitable for touring pitches, but can't help thinking 'thin end of the wedge'!
They're a pretty mercenary bunch these days, they'll follow the money!
It's not exactly a completely new thing, camp site up in the Lake District I used back in the 70's/80's maybe, turned their touring pitches over to statics and the like decades ago!
Agree. If not statics, then seasonals are replacing tourers on the best pitches (beachside, riverside, front row of best view): compared to statics, it’s a guaranteed steady income up front, with no capital costs, no maintenance costs, no onward sale or disposal problems, no costs for cleaning between lets etc.
Very odd to be midweek on a site almost full of caravans but without any people, it’s like a ghost town.
We recentlyy stayed at a CL in Scotland. Owner told us closing site as just not enough tourer business anymore (just us on a Saturday night). Has already started a little glamping unit to replace tourers.
It seems more and more motorhomes / campervans dont want sites as such - hence the rise in CamPra aires, forestry commission overnighting etc.
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Topic: Are we losing touring sites?
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