What is happening with the glamping business?

Latest news related to glamping reveal a booming all over the world

Just a couple of years ago if you looked for glamping business you could find even one piece of news every four or five months, but if you make a web browsing today, you will find that literally every four or five hours a new piece of news is published coming from any place all over the world.
Just some examples of my last browsing:


28 minutes ago, Energy FM, Isle of Man, Port Erin, local authorities supporting the creation of a new glampsite.

4 hours ago, The Star Online, Malaysia, Penang, new glampsite inaugarated by  Penang Island City Council Mayor.

8 hours ago, The Straits Times, Singapur, new urban glamping bakery opened.

17 hours ago, TTG Italy, recommenation: spend the New Years Eve at a glampsite.

28 November, Daily Star, desert glamping in Petra, Jordan.

24 November, La Voz del Interior, new glamping to be opened at Quebrada del Condorito, Córdoba, Argentina.

Just some examples, you will find much more easily.

7 steps to create a luxury glamping business, are you ready?

Though without tents we can’t have a glamping business, the tent’s cost is not the major part of a luxury glamping business investement.

If you ever think of starting a glamping business you should consider the costs of every thing you may need to prepare and to invest in before you are able of hiring your tents to your guests.

1. IDEA. First of all you will need to have an idea about what you want to make real in order to make your dream come true. Maybe this is the way you have chosen to swift from your current not very pleasent job to another one more exciting that can helps you to feel your live closer to the full life you desire to have, or it is just a way to enlarge your hospitality business by offering new services.

2. LAND. Second and a very important one is to have a piece of land where to deploy your tents preferably with nice views and a pleasent natural scenery and space enough for your guest to have their proper relaxing area, maybe of your own or maybe borrowed form someone else.

3. PERMITS. Third, you will have to ask to the local authorities for the permits in order to be able of hiring tents to your future guests.

4.PROJECT. Then you need to prepare the project, several things are to be considered, you will need to think where to place the tents, but also about the accesses to each of them, the space for parking, the general services for the guests, as restaurant, reception desk, lounge or administrative office. And of course, you shouldn’t forget the bathrooms for the clients.

5. LUXURY GLAMPING TENTS. After previous points have been fullfilled it would be advisable to choose the right tent to offer a comfortable lodging to your guests. A tent that is waterproof, that keeps the air fresh inside, one that is free of obstacles inside and around, and with thermal isolation in order to keep it cooler in summertime and warmer tham ambience temperature in winter and it is easily air conditioned. Of course the design of the tent is a must of your choice, it will give the imprint to your glampsite and it will be the picture your guests will have in their minds when they think about your glampsite.

6. ESTIMATE. Then you will have to make your numbers and should be careful to calculate not only the costs but also the price you are going to fix for the renting of the tents in order the glampsite is profitable and the prices are attractive enough for the customers to come to your glampsite. At this point you will discover that tents are not the major cost for a glampsite, things like pathways, general services, sanitation services, lighting, furniture, and everything it is needed for the glampsite to work as a high class tourist resort will sum up a quantitie bigger than that corresponding to the tents.

7. SERVICE AND MARKETING. Finally you have to put everithing to work, set up all the investment, including the preparation of the land, and having all the marketing you may need ready in order to your glampsite is known among those who can be your future guests and, of course, also to have the staff ready to serve the guests and offer them a relaxing and unforgottable stay, then you are about to start your luxury glampsite business.

What can you offer with a luxury glamping tent to make guests feel really comfortable in it?

The fith key factor to be consider in a luxury glamping tent is cleanless and safeness

Well, if you go to a glampsite of a certain category of course you expect to have the tent clean inside, but I am not talking about wheeping it, what I am talking about is of avoiding the mud, the water, the dust or the sand to get into the tent. But how to do that?

First of all it is important to have materials that can assure that the rain, wind - that transport the dust where we wud like to be free of it -, or snow cannot enter into the tent. Of course this is not only about using the right fabrics, but also about design, because the design of the tent should be done in order to have the holes and the junctions in the tent well covered an protected against weather inclemencies.

To reach this objective, the design of the tent should consider to have the holes protected and to create a closed environment for the inner of the tent while keeping it well ventilated and with fresh air, in order the guests can be inside the cabin without being disturbed by these annoying elements.

But ofcourse, it is needed to open holes in the tent fabrics just to pass through,like doors, ot to let the warm air and fragances of nature come into the tent, for beign able to do that without leaving the way opened to insects or bugs, this holes should be protected by mosquito net fabrics.

But if you are the owner of a glampsite you will desire to be able of clean up the tent in an easy way. The tightness of the tent fabrics helps a lot to do that in order not to have wrinkles that could make it a difficult task. The absence of guy-lines that allows to move around the tent is a feature that helps not also the comfort of guests but also the easiness of maintenance. Same happens with inner poles that could constitute an undesired obstacle to move freely inside the tent.

The absence of obstacles is a factor of safeness for users because when you go glamping you expect to enjoy a relaxing stay and not to have to avoid guy-lines crossing around the tent that could you make fall out when you trip on while carelessly walking from your tent to the surroundings when you go for a walk.

So, be sure to check all these features when you cose a tent for your glampsite in order to have your guest plently satisfied!

How to enjoy best a music weekend festival?

Enjoy a glamping tent stay while going to listen your favorite group play!



Having the opportunity of attending a music festival where your favorite group plays, is not something you can do every week. Not always is easy to find the tickets and the time to travel, so once there you want to enjoy every minute you are there.

Now it is possible to attend a music festival for several days and sleep there in a tent. If you can afford it you won’t be in just a tent but you will choose a glamping tent. more and more music festivals are offering this kind of lodging.

Before it was only about a big tent with an air mattress, but now festivals needs to differentiate from others and the galmping accomodations offered is becoming more comfortable and luxurious because people already do not want just to sleep but also enjoy the glamping experience as a part of a complete music weekend.

How is glamping business performing?

Glamping business a solid growth

Glamping is a growing industry that has been increasing its volume even during the crisis years.
Is this increase measurable?

In England, for instance, glamping bookings rose a 50 per cent, as reported by the Cool Camping website, over the first quater’18, following the rise in the number of overnight trips that doubled between 2015 and 2016, from 160,000 to 325,000 trips.

As Finantial Express has written  “Travellers want to be a part of immersive experiences without compromising on the luxuries and glamping is an ideal blend of luxurious accommodation and in-destination experiences.”

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The glamping expert  Sarah Riley, the developer of ‘The Ultimate Glamping Business Guide’ and the ‘Marketing Masterclass For Unique Accommodation and Glamping Businesses’ says that “this is just the beginning and we haven’t reached the tipping point yet”.  And also, quoting the General Manager of glamping.com, she explains that “the market is being underserved in this market, especially in the U.S. and they also confirmed that the market itself was growing rapidly”.

As Rocío Arenado Operations Manager of Glamping Hub “The most demanded market is the North American one”, “United Kingdom and Australia are begining to blunt and in Spain is growing step by step”, but still so they have grown a 100% from last year”.

The recent study published early this summer by Aritzon Camping Tent Market in Europe - Industry Outlook and Forecast 2018-2023  shows that “The camping tent market in Europe is anticipated to generate revenues of around $1 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of approximately 6% during 2018-2023”.

For the time being, we have been able to collect some experts opinions and a few figures, but no solid statistics on the glamping business real trend. We will have to wait a bit for having real data, but for now we can say that, Glamping is booming!

Do you own a land and want to profit from it?

It's time to start a glamping business!

If you are a fortunate land owner with nice views, you have the opportunity to make a gift to those who like to enjoy the nature, either the guests  are your family or friends or they are just people who like to travel and discover new places.

To create a glampsite can be a very gratifying activity not only because of the financial profit you can make from your investment but also because it is a nice way to meet interesting people.

You can start with half a dozen of luxury glamping tents and as your business gets promotion and is known between tourists thanks to the word of mouth, you just need to choose the right tent in order to offer your guests a comfortable stay.

Getting ready for the snow

Glamping under the snow

Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, the snow has already come, and it seems it has done it to stay.

There are two options to cope with the situation when you go glamping. to go where thw Sun is now warming the Earth, the places that never see the snow, or the South Hemisphere that is faacing springtime, the other possibility is to choose a glampsite which can offer you a glamping tent which is able to stand inclement weather and to hold a layer of snow without loosing its shape while keeping the tent dry inside and easy to heat.

Be aware of the tents a glapsite have to offer for your stay!

Brutal Glamping Halloween!

A nearly one ton  pumpkin won the 45th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.

Half Moon Bay is a littke village with a population of  around eleven thousand  people just fifty minutes away to the south of San Francisco.

Since 1974 they organize there a competition between farmers that come from all over the world to show their pumpkins.

Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, Oregon won this year contest with a 956 kg pumpkin!,  the biggest in the annual contest celebrated in the begining of October. He took three years to

grow this enormous pumpkin from special seeds.

Can you imagine to pu this pumpkin at the front of your glamping tent for Haloween?

[Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle]