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  • Keeping track

    Keeping track

    23rd July 2020

    With touring caravans and motorhomes out of use during the lockdown, www.tracker.co.uk and specialist insurers Caravan Guard took the time to jointly remind owners to protect themselves and their pride-and-joy. Although they may not on the road or at a…

  • Haven offers peace of mind

    Haven offers peace of mind

    16th July 2020

    Major holiday operator, Haven, has introduced its ‘Coronavirus Book with Confidence Guarantee’, meaning customers can book their holiday, safe in the knowledge that they are covered if the Coronavirus pandemic interrupts their plans. The guarantee is for all bookings in…

  • Carry on camping

    Carry on camping

    9th July 2020

    Due to the Coronavirus lockdown, this year the Camping and Caravanning Club rebranded its annual camping week celebration, instead calling it ‘The Stay Home National Camping and Caravanning Week’. The event ran at the end of May, with Club members…

  • TIME TO EXPAND

    TIME TO EXPAND

    2nd July 2020

    We find out more about a the development on a leafy Bedfordshire park by a young entrepreneur and site owner Like like father like son, Alfie Best Jnr is also expanding his residential park home empire. The 23-year-old millionaire entrepreneur…

  • Gone to the dogs…

    Gone to the dogs…

    27th May 2020

    The phrase ‘gone to the dogs’ has a positive meaning for once, as Shrewsbury-based Morris Leisure has just raised £15,000 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity, through a series of events and fundraising activities. In partnership with sister…

  • A tourism crisis

    A tourism crisis

    20th May 2020

    The current health crisis and lock-down has dealt a devastating blow for the tourism industry, both in the UK and abroad, with different opinions as to how things will unfold. Speaking about the effect in his part of the UK,…

  • STAY SAFE, STAY INDOORS!

    STAY SAFE, STAY INDOORS!

    13th May 2020

    The UK’s largest residential park operator, Wyldecrest, is taking the coronavirus pandemic just as seriously as the rest of the industry. Chairman Alfie Best explains… The health and security of everyone is our primary concern and we are regularly checking…

  • A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO ARDINGLY

    A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO ARDINGLY

    6th May 2020

    Naturally disappointed by the postponement of April’s Ardingly Show, Pathfinder Homes has found an innovative way to get around the problem… The Ardingly Show may have been postponed until August but prospective park home and lodge buyers who are keen…

  • Your turn to win?

    Your turn to win?

    29th April 2020

    Artist Graham Dews, aka ‘Paris’, with another caravan he decorated at February’s Birmingham NEC caravan show Having just given away a new caravan and awning in its 2019 competition, the Camping and Caravanning Club has launched its big competition for…

  • ‘Staycation’ boom

    ‘Staycation’ boom

    22nd April 2020

    The increasing popularity of ‘staycations’ looks set to continue this year, with two luxury Lake District holiday parks reporting a boom in sales of holiday homes over the winter period. Managers at Old Park Wood and Longlands Caravan Park, both…