Camping and caravan: Expert says traditional pitches are most ‘low cost’ holiday option | Travel News | Travel
While luxury cottages and tree houses may be seeing a rapid number of bookings, Dan Yates, the founder of Pitchup.com, points to the vast array of outdoor accommodation on offer.
“Reports of holiday cottages selling out in prime locations around the UK this summer are rife, but it’s worth remembering that cottages provide only a very small proportion of the overall bed-stock available in the UK,” he said.
“Figures from Visit Britain show that of the 3.2 million bed-spaces in the UK, 1.4 million are non-serviced.
“Of those, outdoor accommodation accounts for some 65 percent of bed spaces – three times more than ‘holiday dwellings’, such as cottages, bungalows, apartments, and more domestic holiday bed-nights than any other type of accommodation including hotels.”
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