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Euro Stat: Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks, online at EFCOHPA https://www.efcohpa.eu/reports
At the European Caravan Federation https://www.e-c-f.com/artikel/economic-impact/ you find the link to the study:
ECONOMIC FACTOR OF TOURISM CAMPING IN SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: Total European market turnover: approx. 55 billion Euro branch, here online.
Alone Germany in 2020 has more than 2800 official registered camping / caravan grounds with about 209.000 parking positions. Hosting every year more than 34 million overnight stays creates more than 668 million Euro turn around, see https://de.statista.com/themen/795/campingtourismus/#dossierKeyfigures
Selected FEWD bibliography on camping and caravanning research.
JORT 2021 An exploratory analysis of the camping industry as a provider of attractive resources. The case of outdoor hospitality parks (OHPs) in unattractive regions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213078021000013
JORT 2021 Motives for shelter camping. A survey-study on motivational differences across group composition and experience level https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213078020300578
JORT 2020 The effect of different characteristics on campsite pricing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221307801930074X
Tourism Management, 2020 The Camping Climate Index (CCI): The development, validation, and application of a camping-sector tourism climate index. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517720300315
Tourism Management, 2019 The Weather-Proximity-Cognition (WPC) framework: A camping, weather, and climate change case https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301207
JORT 2018 The influence of place attachment on campers’ evaluations of ecological impacts due to recreation use. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213078017300592
Tourism Management, 2017 Campsite choice and the camping tourism experience: Investigating decisive campsite attributes using relevance-determinance analysis. (Focus on Croatian coast) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517716301406
(!!!) Journal of Vacation Marketing. 2014 A critical review of camping research and direction for future studies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1356766714532464
JORT 2013 Trends in camping and outdoor hospitality—An international review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221307801300008X
Journal of Vacation Marketing. 2013 Summer camping: An extraordinary, nostalgic, and interpersonal experience https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1356766712463719
Journal of Vacation Marketing. 2010 Defining visitor satisfaction in the context of camping oriented nature-based tourism — the driving force of quality! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1356766710364541
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