Open Air Business June/July 2018

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GLAMPSITES Describe your average day midseason Fabulous! From greeting customers to sharing chopping wood skills and cutting grass. The day starts at 8.30am and we usually answer the last visitor enquiry at 8.30pm. The hospitality business holds long hours. Do you enjoy the business? Yes… I actually get paid for building dens in the woods and get five months off a year. What are you most proud of? The two to three calls a year we get when our customers want to buy the same mattress we provide in our structures, indeed the very same kind we sleep on ourselves. Available from Mattressman, the “Hotel 2 Pocket” - a very comfortable mattress at a very competitive price. Now we are involved in developing new sites in my other job as director and co-founder of the Greener Camping Club, we feel great pride in assisting new and existing businesses in becoming successful within the organisation and seeing their owners enjoy the “lifestyle” business through sharing the club’s standards and values. What other outdoor hospitality sectors do you operate in? The Greener Camping Club which encourages more sustainable quality holiday experiences through camping and glamping holidays. We are able to certify sites by conversion from other “YES… I ACTUALLY GET PAID FOR BUILDING DENS IN THE WOODS AND GET FIVE MONTHS OFF A YEAR” clubs, create new sites for members and negate planning for change of use. What advice could you give to someone coming into the industry? Really it’s like all successful businesses in any industry but ADDRESS BOOK HOBBIT YURT Rewild Wales www.rewild.wales PIZZA OVEN Vitcas www.vitcas.com MATTRESSES Mattressman www.mattressman.co.uk INSURANCE Friar Best www.friarbest.co.uk even more so in hospitality: put your customer first and at the centre of all decision making, and the money and rewards will follow. Keep your eye on the cash and remember turnover can be vanity, profit is sanity. It’s not done in a year or even two, ours has been a 17 year overnight success. DIRECTORY SITES Cool Camping www.coolcamping.com The Greener Camping Club www.greenercamping.org DETAILS Trellyn Woodland Camping Abercastle Haverfordwest SA62 5HJ 01348 837762 www.trellyn.co.uk 34 WWW.OPENAIRBUSINESS.COM
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