What do you need to create a Luxury Glamping resort?

NOT JUST A MATTER OF TENTS, BUT NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT LUXURY GLAMPING TENTS

When you are planning to grow a garden you can just spread some plants here and there without thinking about where to get water enough for keeping them alive, or without drawing the paths through which it will be possible to take a turn around it.

And if you plan to have visitors to the garden who can spend there the whole day, then you should plan a parking space for them and offer them the opportunity to drink a refreshment or having a lunch and even prepare for them some activities, in order they have a nice stay.

Same happens if you plan to run a luxury glampsite. You should remember to prepare all it is needed around the tents in order to offer your guests an unforgottable luxury stay including a level of service according to what you want to offer them.

Why most tents have a similar pyramidal shape?

Pyramidal tents a concept older than Roman Empire

In Roman Era, every Roman soldier used to carry a triangular piece of fabric “pannis” and when the time to settle the campament arrived he joined to other three companions, all of them carrying their own piece, so the four soldiers were “cum pannis” (with canvas) - some authors consider this the origin of the word companion, against those who think the origin is “cum panis” (with bread; those who share the same bread - in fact it seems something a bit strange to consider a “companion” a member of the same family, for instance, who usually shared the same bread - I am rather between the first group even if I am not a linguistic) . The four soldiers “cum pannis” put together their pieces of fabric and they connected them between each other either by buttoms or by laces in order to form a tent.

The four pieces joined together and supported by a two pieces wooden pole formed a pyramidal
shaped tent with a square base shape and a 2.2 m tall apex. The tent could be ready to use in a few minutes and the soldiers could devote their time to other more gratifying activities.

Many human beings tend to be too lazy, specially in designing matters. So, for centuries tent designers have preferred to play it safe and not to make any additional mental effort than that already made by Roman Army. This is the main reason because we find so frequently so called modern tents that have not varied the shape since centuries.

But this situation could be compared to the use of vehicles formed by a passenger compartment pulled by a vapour machine or even an electric one. Fortunately vehicle designers have not been so lazy as tent designers and now we have known all kinds of cars where the machine and the passenger compartment are integrated together in the same vehicle.

It is time to leave the Roman Army design for history books and to be opened to use instead those tents that incorporate technological developments and offer shapes different from that old pyramidal one in order to make new comfort concepts available to users.

It’s time for incorporating some luxury glamping lodges to your campsite

If you plan to keep on business, surf the wave!

You can jump into the wave or just going down it, or even being swept by it, of course it is your choice, but if you are a part of the ones who believe is not good for your business to rest on your laurels, you won’t remain calm just enyoing the present profits of your campsite business that may not last forever.

The unstoppable wave now in tourist resorts is glamping, the demand is increasing all over the world, so the offering, but, who can best offer a glamping lodging than those who already have the experience of running a glampsite business?

There are no detailed analysis about but a glampsite reported past year it experienced a quite respectful 11% increase in Augut from the same period the previous year after incorporating some few luxury glamping tents to its business (inspiredcamping.com).

In order to offer a really atractive luxury glamping lodging in your campsite it is needed to chose carefully some luxury glamping tents that incorporate a good thermal isolation system and are white enough, but the tents by themselves are not enough, you need to assure the comfort inside by decorating the tents with a luxury taste and of course never forget to offer a high quality service to your guests.

Now it is time to ride the wave by joining to the glamping trend before your competitors do!

Is the Moon the next favorite glamping destination?

Growing cotton plants in the moon

As Chinese are growing plant at the hidden face of the Moon maybe in a near future the Moon starts to be a more friendly place to stay and it becomes a new glamping destination.

What do you think about?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526

Image Shutterstock 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019!

Who are the most frequent guests of glamping resorts, do you agree?

Are you a frequent glampsite traveller or do you ocassionaly go to enjoy glampsites?

We do not have any statistics that can help us to identify the kind of public that prefers glampsites to expend a part of their holidays or just to expend some weekends, but if we follow what some glampsite owners have told us, the most frequent guests are couples of ages in the group between 30 and 55 years old.

We think there are strong reasons for this. Glampsites in general are places at secluded locations where to expend some relaxing days. This kind of places are not the most attractive for teens or for expending some holidays with kids. As the guests expect to be relaxed, this is not compatible with kids running and souting around or for teenagers having late parties at night.

Another strong reason is the price for spending few days there, this kind of resorts are not in the low cost side of the tourist lodgings, so the public must have an income or an spending capacity above the average.

But this is just what we have concluded from our own impressions and conversations and it could be very interesting to know about yuor own experience. Have you ever be a glampsite guest, are you a frequent glamping visitor? If so, please let us know about your age (more less) and your own expectations for the kind of guests you prefer to find when you go there.

How can I start my glamping business?

Tips to create a profitable glampsite

First of all, we should agree what a glampsite is. I have my own definition: a glampsite is a luxury tourist resort in a natural privileged site where guest are accomodated in luxury glamping tents.
But, what a luxury glamping tent is? A big size tent with a nice design which is robust enough to be comfortable even under inclement weather and which is furnished with a king size bed, a nice furniture, a floor that can be stepped on with your bare feet with a warm feeling and which include a private bathroom.

Then there are a lot of possible variations from this view, as much as glampsite owners!
Once we have agree in the concept, then the environment should be considered. A glampsite is mainly addressed to couples that can spend a few days in a private area and have at least a 400 m2 plot for their own in order to preserve their privacy. A key question is to have a common area with a nice restaurant and a lounge area where to meet with other customers if the guests want or just to seat there and having a drink.

Don’t forget the parking area and the accesses to the site, one for the guests and one for the staff and supplies.

In order to all that works well it is necessary to have sanitation and water and energy supplies well arranged they can be made of stand alone systems or connected to grid or general conductions systems, but in any case they should be respectful with the environment and to be sure of that you should comply with local regulations as well s general ones.

So, first of all you should be clear about your investment: tents, furniture, decoration, bathrooms, lounge, restaurant, general services, access to the tents and to the site, parking, water and electricity supply and sanitation.

But investment is not enough, you should also be prepared for runnig a business that is expected to be profitable. It is important you consider the night rates and occupancy in order to calculate income, but also you should be aware of operating expenses.

If you offer just lodging your glampsite should be at a fantastic location in order to attract the costumer, but this is not always possible. If you want your glampsite is remembered and recommended to others by your guests, you should offer a menu of experiencial services, bicycles to ride, maybe horse rides and others in summary an unforgotable experience for your guests.

HOW TO OFFER A HIGH END MOBILE SAFARI

African storks and hippos, part of the wildlife you can get closer to on a mobile safari

The main advantage of a mobile safari is that you can get closer to the animals because you can go where they are to watch them.

This kind of luxury travels is the best way to enjoy the African wildlife watching.

Mobile safari tour companies have the ability to move their mobile camps while you are enjoying the wildlife watching from the place where you slept last night to the place where you are going to sleep tonight.

If you are a mobile safari organizer or owner, in order to be able to move the camp 100 or 150 km away everynight you need a well trained staff that are able to pack everything in the camp just inmediately after the breakfast is served to the guests and they have left for their daily tourist journey and that can set up the camp at the next location in order to have everything ready for dinner before the guests arrive.

It is obvious that to be able to pack and unpack fast and to set the tents down and then up in the shortest possibe time you will need tents that can be easily assembled and dissasembled and that can be easily transported from one place to another, and also very important is that the tents are lightweight so yo can use light vehicles to transport everything, but you need that all these features do not sacrify the guests’ comfort.

In order to offer a luxury lodging for your guests the tents should keep the temperature inside cooler than the outside air temperature at daytime and warmer at night and at the same time keep the air fresh inside while having the holes covered by mosquito nets and the groundsheets sealed to the tent body in order to avoid insects, reptiles, bugs or mud entering the tent thorugh te bottom side, while be strong and robust.

Ctents for mobile safaris assembly video.

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]

Have you thought of celebrating your wedding in a glamping style?

Glamping wedding, a trendy way of start a life together

Many of us like to be in contact eith nature. A wedding is a great ocassion to gather your friends and family together and having fun and to spend a night out surrounded by them.

What a better manner for a glamping lover than to invite your guests to spend an unforgottable wedding? Something different like celebrating together at nature and spending the wedding night at a glamping tent will create some memories for all the participants that will remain forever. They’ll be grateful to you for that for a long time.

How to avoid lightning strikes when going glamping?

Why a glamping tent’s structure shouldn’t be made of metal or carbon fiber?

A storm while being inside a glamping tent is not the best thing one would like to suffer when going glamping, but in case it happens be sure your tent’s structure in not made of any material that could attract the lightnings that can accompany a storm.

Electricity conducting materials like aluminum, or carbon fiber act as electrical poles of attraction for lightnings so this kind of materials can make a tent unsafe and should be avoided. Other materials like fiberglass are non electrecity conducting materials so they can be considered as materials safe for tents.

Before buying a glamping tent for your glamping resort you should checked that the struture of the tents you are planning to buy is made of non conductive materials, this will hel to keep your guests safer under the storm.

Have you gone glamping past summer?

Share your comments

We would like to learn from all of you who have gone glamping past summer (Northern Hemisphere) or past winter (Southern one), how your experience was and what you enjoyed most about it.

Thanks for sharing!

Paco Soto a reborn flamenco guitar player

Paco Soto dedicates his song “PACO” from his work “VIDA” to the famous flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucía

This afternoon, while I was seated relaxing a bit inside my glamping tent, before reincprorating to my work tomorrow Monday, I listened at the radio to the flamenco guitarist Paco Soto who has been selected to play with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Cologne next Saturday the 13th of October.

I was amaxzd by his impressive story, he has explained how while he was playing guitar, his left hand got paralyzed and he wasn¡t able to continue playing at all: a cancerous tumor had grown up inside him and had provocked him to have the half of his body paralyzed.

He also told how the day  was having a surgery to remove it, he said to his mother, “Before I enter the operating room I want to listen to Paco de Lucía’s Fuente y Caudal song, otherwise I won’t go inside”. His mother asked why and he said “Because for me is the LIFE”.


As the surgical operation was a success, he decided to publish a work entitled “Vida” (Life) presented past June and with its fith song “Paco”dedicated  to Paco de Lucia who he considers has saved his life thanks to his music.

Two weeks ago, the Paco de Lucía’s widow decided to lend the guitar of his husband to Paco Soto in order he plays it around the world.

As I was really moved by this amazing story and the simplicity and sincerity with which Paco Soto has told it, I have decided to share it with all of you.