Travellers staying at holiday parks contribute more than $623 million a year into the New Zealand economy. This represents 3 per cent of New Zealand’s $20 billion tourism industry.
A new report commissioned by the Holiday Accommodation Parks Association of New Zealand (HAPNZ) has shown that travellers staying in holiday parks contribute more than $623 million per year into the New Zealand economy.
Of this national expenditure figure, 55% is contributed to domestic travellers and 45% by international visitors.
The research also highlighted that holiday park visitors spend about 18% of their daily expenditure on accommodation costs which is considerably less than other types of accommodation. This lower daily spend means that a larger part is spent in support of other businesses.
Many holiday parks are located on prime real estate often fronting the ocean, rivers or lakes. This has resulted in many privately owned parks closing to realise underlying value in the land that they occupied. Even council owned parks are facing pressure from local communities for alternative land uses. Most council owned parks are located close to town centres. Growing populations has resulted in many district councils scrutinising other land use alternatives before committing to lease renewals.
It is now common to visit many costal resort towns in New Zealand to find that a new housing subdivision sits where once stood a holiday park. It is clear that this important sector of New Zealand’s accommodation industry is facing lage headwinds.
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It is the same in the UK the holiday parks are more popular than ever before, people looking to stay at home and save money too. They are family friendly and very competitive on price, this is what makes them so attractive to people.
My family have a mini family reunion every easter around the North Island which includes 19 – 38 family members each year, and have genuinely enjoyed our experiences in camping grounds, except this Easter where we went to Redwood Camping Ground in Rotorua it was reasonably priced for sure but that is no different than any other camping ground the difference between this one and others was the state and the rude owners. There was rust on the fridge, something growing out of the carpet holes in the furniture and with the stuffing hanging out, some random persons old socks in the couch, no smoke alarm in a unit with 12 people in it and a locked back that had no key to it so if there had been a fire the 12 of us would have slept through it and those that didn’t would not have been able to open the back door. On top of that the chain on the swing my daughter was on broke resulting with her landing on the ground and the owner running out to tell her off swearing at her in front of all her young cousins ranging from 4years old up, prior to this altercation we were asked when one of our late party were arriving, we assured them that they would be there the next day they were fine with that but after our altercation when our late party arrived she was told that they had given her room away. This as the owners was their choice and right to do so but I’m sure it was a decision made out of spite. This is not a experience I won’t other people to make nor one I wish to repeat I am not sure if this is the correct forum but my only wish is that after this is read that it might prevent someone from having the same disasterous holiday in Rotoruas Redwood Camping Ground we had.