Insidious Development

The bottom line has got to be profit otherwise there can be no future investment, no innovation, no improvements, no new customers. 

The world of leisure is changing and the likes of Easy T and many others who tour quite extensively throughout the year may well be an endangered species in years to come. People currently in work are unlikely to be able to retire early as the immediate post war generation was able to. Pensions clearly won't be as good. So time available and discretionary income could very well be totally different to what we are used to now. The Club can't wait for the current generation of members to hand up their hitch locks they have to start thinking and acting about it now whilst they have time to experiment to see what works and what doesn't work. If people think that change in not necessary just look at the Retail sector. Those retailers who have embraced change and spent time looking at the future will survive others either have not or are uncomfortably close to the edge. None of surely want the Club to be yet another "Campsites are Us" do they?

David

IMO, if the site is big enough I don't really see the problem with having a few pods dotted around. The likes of Conniston can easily take them. I'd go so far as to say if you pitched up there in certain areas ,you could easily spend a week there and not even see them. From the club's point of view they are trying to "speculate to accumulate" is this wrong ?.

I think that whether we personally like pods, safari tents, or whatever, there’s no doubt that change has to come.

We may well be happy with our cvans and MHs but the future doesn’t lie with them. You only have to look at tow cars and the anti-diesel standpoint to realise that things can’t go on as they are.

Who knows whether we ourselves will be glad to stay in an S-Pod one day when towing a cvan or running a MH is no longer feasible. The club is proving to be forward thinking in that respect.

I don't have a Dream – but I do have a Crystel Ball.

I see lurking in the shadows a diminutive figure from a different era.

This often forgotten individual is looking at the business strategy of the leaders of the C&MC.

A crack of light, a shaft of sun and inspiration crosses his brow.

Yes, the MD of Butlins has his beady eye on the leisure sites owned by the C&MC.

You have been warned.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

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+1 Tinster. Environmental pressures will price the big tow cars & Moho’s out of existence. Govt’s will greedily tax them massively. The future is grim for the nostalgia crowd I’m 😟.

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What is currently the way could well change, DD. For example, we could see a new taxation class for MHs which wouldn’t affect white van man. There’s nothing set in stone to say the link between larger MHs and trucks will be maintained. 

Here's the link to these newer types of camping, it seems that Coniston is due to have ten new units by the summer. The Yurts are only on one site at the moment.

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