Interest in caravanning holidays across the UK is as high as ever, with MPs joining everyday enthusiasts in hitching up their trailers and taking a ‘staycation’.
That is according to the Caravan Club, which has welcomed one politician’s support for caravanning with an insistence that demand for pitches across the country is as strong as ever.
Oliver Heald, who serves as an MP for North East Hertfordshire, visited Caravan Club site Ashridge farm in Baldock as part of a wider effort to further promote domestic tourism, with the politician noting the “high standards” evident at the site.
Following the visit, the Caravan Club’s marketing director Nick Lomas stated his confidence that this summer the popularity of caravan holiday within the UK will be as strong as ever.
“The domestic tourism industry had an unprecedented opportunity to encourage holidaymakers to take breaks and holidays on home ground in 2009 and the Caravan Club saw an increase of half a million ‘bed nights’ on its sites network,” he said.
Perhaps the best-known political caravanner is Margaret Beckett, who famously insisted on taking a summer caravan holiday in 2006, despite having to be accompanied by security personnel due to her then role as foreign secretary.
