‘Glamorous camping’: so is it worth forking out hundreds of dollars for a tent fitted out with Persian carpets? Heather On Her Travels says: “I can’t understand this glamping thing – If you’re going to pay top hotel prices why not stay in a top hotel and be done with it? Suppose I might be … Read more about Glamping: is it worth it?
Glamping down under? There are endless options from Karijini Eco Retreat (take a look here) to El Questro’s Emma Gorge (pictured here), however the Australian travel media seems largely to have missed the glamping trend. Except Lissa Christopher who in Carry on Glamping for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald writes: “Glamping is about exploring … Read more about Carry on Glamping
A problem with the travel media, and the US media in particular, is their enthusiasm for publishing syndicated travel stories (they’re cheaper) and their preference for masking that the story was syndicated (everyone wants to publish original content, right?), which means the same story appears in a dozen or more different publications in different guises. … Read more about We’re all going on a glamping holiday – again, and again, and again
As the cool camping phenom- enon was peaking in the UK last year, ‘glamping’ was starting to gain momentum in North America, where travel journalists admitted the trend had just recently traversed the Atlantic: “It’s known as “glamping,” or glamorous camping, a British import inspired by A-listers who wanted to be in touch with nature … Read more about The travel media goes glamping
Caravanning may be attracting aristocrats in the UK, and with it a whole new posh lingo, but in the USA there’s still a stigma attached to staying in caravan parks because of the perception they’re only home to the poor and unemployed, succinctly and unsubtly encapsulated in the term ‘trailer trash’. While ‘trailer trash’ may … Read more about ‘Trailer trash’ and ‘glamping’