Product News: Glamping

Expand Your Business with Glamping

More than ever, guests are seeking a comfortable and luxurious stay in nature. Would you like to increase your turnover and offer your guests an experience they will never forget?

Glamping offers the solution!

Luxury camping is in high demand; it allows families, couples and individuals to relax in a unique setting, specifically created to provide an unforgettable experience. YALA aims to provide canvas lodges that meet the needs of this growing group of holidaymakers. YALA’s luxury canvas lodges combine the magic of the outdoors with the comfort of first-class accommodation. Together with YALA, you can provide your guests with the ultimate holiday experience.

YALA works in collaboration with you

YALA provides unique and versatile canvas lodges of the highest quality, fully customised and equipped with interior, sanitary and heating facilities. Take advantage of their safari tents to extend the season and increase occupancy. Maximise your accommodation offering by investing in glamping. YALA loves to collaborate with you from design to realisation.

Product range & customisation

Whether you are looking for a compact, flexible or exclusive glamping tent, you will find a wide range of high-quality safari tents at YALA luxury canvas lodges. They cover the full scope of the luxury camping market with their segmented range, from classic to exclusive lodges. Each segment defines a new level of luxury. Every client, however, is unique with their specific circumstances. Therefore, YALA will discuss with you which tent model is most suitable for your location and which layout suits the needs of your guests, allowing you to tailor the floor plan and the look & feel of the lodge to your specific requirements.

Quality

Exceptional design, incredible construction quality and longevity are guaranteed with every YALA canvas lodge. YALA’s designs are developed and perfected by their highly specialised in-house design team. YALA also offers fire retardant and fully mildew-resistant PVC and canvas to ensure the highest possible quality. All tents and materials are extensively tested to ensure they can deliver on their promise to provide high quality canvas lodges.

Yala Luxury Canvas Lodges

For more information, visit their website yalacanvaslodges.com.

Looking for Something a Bit... Different?

Tiny Houses are taking the UK by storm as a new unique way to holiday. They’re specially designed for year-round stays with a thermal performance as good as a house! Did we mention they’re on wheels making them perfect for glamping sites, park home sites or private land. The compact design offers a fully-fitted kitchen with dining space, living room, full-sized loft bedroom with storage, and a modern bathroom.

Another bonus is they arrive off-grid ready with connections for gas, water including a composting toilet. They’re a light touch on the land, and in most cases can be up & running on the day that they’re delivered, meaning you’ll be making money straight away!

With numerous models and custom designs available, Tiny Housing are here to increase your revenue per night whilst offering a unique holiday experience to your customers.

Get in touch today at contact@thetinyhousing.co

Staycation Inspiration

We’ve heard the word ‘staycation’ being used more and more in recent years, particularly because of travel restrictions that have been imposed since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. If there’s one thing about British holidaymakers, their sense of wanderlust isn’t going to be diminished so easily, and so, they found freedom in the word ‘staycation’ which led them to far flung corners of our small but mighty real estate that we call Britain.

TruDomes

Not to brag, but TruDomes have been raving about staycations and UK Glamping holidays before it was cool. The staycation trend has seen glampsites fully booked ahead of the season, which has been a huge boost for the industry at large. Glamping domes are sprouting from the earth like daisies, and TruDomes couldn’t be more excited to be showing the world how brilliantly versatile these much-loved structures can be.

Speaking of trendsetting, Purusha Retreats, based in rural Lincolnshire, are making waves in the glamping industry as they diversify and redefine what glamping can be. Purusha Retreats are the proud owners of ‘Best Dome Manufacturer’ award-winning TruDomes. Their creative approach to staycations has drawn in visitors from near and far, and they continue to push the status quo and find new and exciting ways to provide their guests with memorable moments and endless adventure.

Recently, we had the pleasure of taking a road trip from our Midlands-based factory to visit Purusha Retreats and get the full story. Purusha Retreats was founded on a love of the land and farming, and a passion for yoga. The area itself is comprised of idyllic woodland; embellished by a lake, flower meadows and winding pathways through fields that is home to varying wildlife.

Eco meets luxury in their thoughtfully designed glamping, dining, and event domes; there is ample space for large groups to gather, with a woodfired hot tub allocated for each accommodation dome that is set in a private woodland glade. Everything down to the soap is meticulously chosen with sustainability in mind, proving that back to nature doesn’t mean back to basics.

Katie Gordon, from Purusha, said, “The domes are just so unique, and they can hold so many people, so we can get large parties together and bring people together and that’s really special. Every time people come into the domes, they are just wowed by it and they can’t believe something like this exists in Lincolnshire. You can see the stars through the roof and it brings the countryside in”.

Purusha Retreats

What’s really impressive about Purusha, is the events and activities from community arts and group dining to yoga and even aerial yoga, that make this business so much more than a glampsite. This year, they are hosting weddings and additionally, have planned to host a range of wellness events, ranging from yoga workshops to restorative health and wellness sessions and craft making group classes.

Purusha have evolved, and transformed into a community driven space where people can both rejuvenate and grow. In the modern age, travellers are looking for more than just a place to rest their head; searching for unique experiences, locations and little touches that make a stay all the more memorable. The recent popularity of Geodesic Domes is perhaps in part owed to this shift in mind-set, as people search for the out of the ordinary.

Kelda Bassett, from TruDomes, said, “It’s fantastic to see TruDomes’ customers pushing boundaries, it’s not just about glamping anymore, it’s about creative use of space and bringing people together. No two glampsites are the same, which is what makes the Glamping industry so inspiring, and an exciting sector to be a part of”.

From yoga retreats, to equestrian holidays and off-grid experiences; TruDomes’ glampsite owners are always ahead of the curve when it comes to creating unique and memorable glamping staycations.

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Taking You Beyond Seasonality

Glamping is becoming an increasingly popular way to celebrate special occasions. Why book a hall or venue for a regular event when you can pitch a glamping tent in the wilderness or your backyard and bring together your close ones for a getaway?

White Duck Outdoors

Luxury tents are an awesome way to celebrate occasions and milestones because they’re so customizable and you can set them up virtually anywhere.

Generally, canvas tents are versatile, spacious and extremely affordable (especially when compared with an event space) so you can find a ton of creative ways to put them to good use – beyond regular camping nights.

Wine Tastings

Glamping resorts all over the world plan exquisite wine tasting events for visitors and glampers. A luxurious canvas tent is equipped with all modern needs, coupled with this you can spend the day exploring the vineyards and enjoying locally produced wine. If you’re not actually on a vineyard, you can buy some of your favourite local wines and create a special wine tasting evening complete with a charcuterie board and other snacks for clients in their backyards.

Birthday Parties

Celebrating birthdays in a glamping tent is the perfect way to design a themed birthday and decorate the tent. People often look to glamping and event businesses to bring in a luxury tent to create a memorable experience for kids. The benefit of this is being able to combine a birthday with a slumber party inside the tent.

Weddings

Weddings are a great way to use your glamping tents for additional income. Glamping tents (especially wall tents) are extremely spacious and perfect for minimalist, no-hassle weddings. They also make for the perfect backdrop for photoshoots, or for bridal showers.

Corporate Retreats

A glamping weekend retreat can help break the ice among a group of people. If you’re a company looking for fresh retreat ideas or a company looking to provide a new experience to clients, staying in glamping tents is a fun event you can plan. As a glamping business, the benefit of this is that retreats from companies are often in large numbers, which helps see a better return on investment on your efforts of travel or setting up.

Photoshoots

Bring the glamour of glamping to your customers by setting up a photoshoot for a wedding, party or any other special occasion! Pre-wedding photoshoots have taken the glamping world by storm and you can hop onto this new trend too. Setting up a glamping tent out in the open against a picturesque background is a unique proposition and will help your business stand out. You might also want to explore this idea for family shoots, on an anniversary or birthday.

How To Choose A Glamping Tent for Your Business

If you’re thinking about going forward with this idea, there are a few things to keep in mind when choosing the perfect glamping tent:

Make sure it fits your budget and you don’t have to pay extra for add-ons or features.

See that the glamping tent has a built-in stove jack for cooler nights n There should be plenty of windows and a large door.

The canvas tent should be made from 100% cotton canvas.

The glamping tent should have a solid warranty to keep you protected.

Ensure that, if you’re buying in bulk, you’re able to secure favourable pricing and shipping options.

To find out more, visit whiteduckoutdoors.co.uk.

Cool Camping Domestic Bookings Rise Despite France Travel 'Bounce'

UK bookings on camping booking platform, coolcamping.com, have increased by almost 90% compared to this time last year, despite an increase in travellers looking to go abroad this summer.

Cool Camping

Cornwall, Snowdonia and the Lake District remain the most popular locations, Cool Camping reported, despite noticeable shifts in travel trends, including more than five times the number of bookings for holidays in France, compared to 2021.

“Travel trends continue to shift as the pandemic and its consequences unfold”, James Warner Smith from Cool Camping told International Glamping Business. “There’s still masses of confidence in the UK glamping market, and we’re seeing big increases for particular holiday types, including dog-friendly holidays and hot tub glamping.”

“And while the usual places, like Cornwall and the Lake District, still see our highest bookings, it’s great to see there are also new growth areas as glampers try to avoid the honeypot sites. Cornwall has always been popular, but the growth is really being seen in other coastal spots, like Pembrokeshire and the Llyn Peninsula,” Warner Smith continued.

“Sometimes it’s the glamping sites themselves that are driving the trend too. Creative and eco-friendly places like Bert’s Kitchen Garden in North Wales, have really helped drive tourism in their local areas, and other glamping sites on the Llyn Peninsula, like Nightsky Glamping, can book out months in advance.”

Part of growth in UK bookings may also be caused by an increase in supply. Data from coolcamping.com shows a net increase in the number of glamping sites on offer compared to 2021.

“There are more glamping sites than ever entering the market”, Warner Smith agreed. “But, despite the competition, the supply is really coming about as a result of the demand, which, overall, is resulting in more people than ever getting outside and taking glamping holidays.”

LOTUS BELLE MARKS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Lotus Belle tents is a UK based company specialising in unique and innovative canvas design. This year is our 10th anniversary, and we have more confidence in our product now than ever before - as we can now definitively say that if the tents are looked after well, they can last for 10 years! In the past 10 years our tents have survived snow, monsoons, and even a tropical hurricane. A huge percentage of our customers come back year after year to buy new accessories, expand their fleet of tents for personal or professional use, or upgrade to a bigger size or newer model.

With average nightly rentals of around £100/ pn, Lotus Belle tents offer an amazing return on investment - we are often told by our glampsite owners that the tents have paid for themselves within a couple of months of opening, and certainly within one season including all additional facilities required, making them a very low risk option for start-up or experienced glampsite owners.

Lotus Belle

Introducing KABINA by Enchanted Creations

Enchanted Creations' KABINA

Why KABINA? Here are the original 4 main aesthetic design influences for this experiential, Glamping habitat:

Luxurious Adventure

Luxury in the 21st century comes in the form of having the space and comforts to enjoy your surroundings. Designed to have everything you need at your fingertips while adventuring with attention to details that aren’t typically in glamping pods.

Inspired By Nature, For Nature

Sympathetic integration into multiple terrains, ecologies and environment. The rolling form of the sedum green roof, draws inspiration from open spaces and rolling vistas, intended to blend with landscapes.

A Frame For Experiences

Kabina is designed to create a customisable, instagrammable and memorable ‘frame’ for experiences with details that people won’t have in their everyday lives.

Comfortable, Considered

Designed with a careful balance of comfort and space, compared to many other Cabins 8available. Consideration to atmosphere, functionality and operational maintenance is key.

Kabina is one of the few predesigned cabins in the Holiday accommodation industry, which comes with an option to comply with full Building Regulations and a Building warrantee. This means it is an extremely well-insulated, thermally efficient building for all year round use.

Whilst the Cabin is clad with sustainably sourced natural timber, the substructure is manufactured from an extremely durable Galvanised Light gauge steel substructure with a 100+ year lifespan, which is made from 80% recycled material. The specification also includes ‘renewable ready’ smart water heating systems, Low voltage Far infrared heating which all contributes to sustainability.

When designing a Kabina ‘Village’ for your retreat, we ensure they are set sympathetically into landscape with experiential add-ons factored in, focusing heavily on the visitor experience and privacy. Reach out to the team at Enchanted creations to start designing your unique retreat!

enchantedcreations.co.uk

Bespoke Kocoon Cubicle Delivered Thanks to Leading Customer Service

The Kocoon is a cubicle with a difference. With all the benefits of Kinedo self-contained shower cubicles, the Kocoon differs with its luxury shower panels, rather than the glass internal panels that Kinedo cubicles are famous for.

The cubicles are available in multiple sizes and are popularly used as bath replacement products. One customer, from the Midlands, was looking for such a product that would blend into the original décor of his smartly tiled bathroom and the beige patterned shower wall of the Kocoon looked like a perfect match. However, the standard specification of a recessed Kocoon - with two patterned end panels and a single plain back panel - didn’t meet his unique requirements.

Unable to support the request, the local plumbers merchant recommended direct contact with the Kinedo technical team, who provided personalized support for a personalized shower cubicle.

The unit was delivered and installed within 9 weeks of the initial enquiry and the customer is delighted with the result; “From start to finish the team to Kinedo have bent over backwards to support my requirements. I am really pleased with the cubicle which slots directly into the recess where my bath was previously. I was keen to retain the existing tiles and this cubicle gave me that opportunity. Then, when I wanted something over and above the standard spec, the team could not have been more helpful and I think the result is absolutely stunning.”

The Kocoon cubicle is supplied as one integrated package that includes the tray, internal shower panels, glass external panels and door, as well as the smart shower valve, rainshower head and handheld shower with anti-twist hose.

The specification team at Kinedo is very happy to work with installers and specifiers to deliver solutions, including sales specials, that meet any project requirements. The technical team will also deliver installation training on-site to ensure that all plumbers and installers can benefit from best practice installation. A Kinedo cubicle can be installed and ready to use in under half a day. With no tiles, grout or silicone required it really is an efficient solution.

Kinedo Kocoon