What is the obsession with attracting the yoof

A bit stereotypical. We along with lots of the older generation spend plenty of time off site, generally walking or visiting interesting places. Often we see plenty of younger folk sitting about, which may be because they have busy working lives and just want to chill out. 

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I suspect the Club are watching how things are going at Love2Stay, newest of the Affiliated Sites, and a world away from what the Club itself offers at the moment. Some will love it, others will not love it. But it represents a somewhat different type of provision for this country, and maybe what those new to touring may be looking for, if they can afford it. Put something similar into the South West for example, and I suspect it would be booked solid, maybe over quite a long season?

hard to see what is included and what the costs of non included items are....

interesting to compare (prices and extras) as we, too, were at Centre Parcs (Longleat) last week.

touring pitches for two are £30 a night at the moment, but i dont know what you get for this.....

I spent a whole week at Love2Stay just after they opened and my girlfriend and I thorouly enjoyed it all.  Did most things apart from the pool, and that was because I was not convinced the water would be biologically clean. Lets see how that goes with the natural filtration.

Bar was handy, pizza good value, "we never close" toilets and showers great, and clean. Only thing missing was a real bath - but the Caravanning Clubs don't do them anyway. Good coffee shop at the bottom of the road. Spacious, level pitches and most with some sort of rural outlook.

We saw families with toddlers, and with geriatrics. All seemed to be doing well.  And it is well over half a century since I could be described as yoof.

Surely you lot are not suggesting that the CMC sites are full of  Hyacinth Buckets and Victor Meldrews.    !'m sure I've seen some people a bit younger than that on site.  

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If we are the future then its a short future, of course we have to invest in young people and encourage them to follow in our footsteps, otherwise in 15/20 years there will be a lot of empty sites.

Dave

Well I can't speak for others but I was young once and I was a member of the club. My children from infants to teenagers accompanied us on our tours and what fun we had. To be honest the 'oldies' then were great, friendly and often helpful too. Is it our generation who are the issue now, have we become the grumps and selfish ones? Just asking!

same here, our youngest was 2 when we first went to club sites (she is now 20).

Yes also perhaps maybe possibly true about your last sentence too!

Any business which wants to succeed,  plans for the long term future. The future of the CMC is with the young people of today.  Those young people are the people that the CMC should be gearing their business models to attract. 

It's very selfish for us who are retired to expect that the CMC should only cater for the elderly Ad infinitum as very few of us will still be caravanning in 30 years time. 

Touring using campsites will still be a good way to enjoy this country, but I predict it wont be using towed caravans. Those will die out completely.  Large motorhomes will reduce drastically as well...I see the young people using compact campervans to compliment their modern lifestyle, visiting camping places geared to their expectations.

No-the emphasis should be the future looking forward not back.