Alan Rogers Travel Group was formed in 2012 following the purchase of various brands from the former Mark Hammerton Group Ltd by The Caravan Club. [1]
The most established and best-known product offered by Alan Rogers Travel Group is the campsite guidebooks, started in 1968 by Alan Rogers. Since their inception, the guides have provided readers with an independent recommendation of the highest quality campsites in Europe. In 2011, themed guides were launched including a guide to glamping. Available in both English and Dutch, the guides covered nine titles including the best campsites for children, dogs, fishing, golf, beach, nature, walking and cycling, spa and active holidays plus two German titles and a Dutch naturist guide. The themed series was reduced to the four core titles in 2014, which were subsequently discontinued in 2016.
All guides were temporarily discontinued in 2017 in preparation for a special 50th-anniversary edition that was published in February 2018. The publication of the guide also coincided with what would have been Alan’s 100th birthday. A European guide has been published every year since.
Belle France is a hotel-based walking and cycling holiday programme that offers a wide range of routes through the French countryside. Maps and notes are provided for the self-guided tours, which are graded according to their difficulty.
Destinations magazine was launched in 2012 to provide readers with inspiration for their next holiday. Issues were released in February and October to coincide with major exhibitions. It was published in English, Dutch and Danish. Regular issues stopped in 2015 with the magazine relaunched in 2020.
Alan Rogers Rallies provide ferry inclusive holiday bookings for groups of like-minded travellers, often with a shared interest, such as ownership of a particular brand of caravan.
Launched in 2018 Alan Rogers - Worldwide Caravan and Motorhome Holidays offer escorted or self-guided, flight-inclusive motorhome or caravan holidays in a range of destinations throughout the world.
Alan Rogers Travel opened a subsidiary office in Australia in 2020 to sell their Worldwide Caravan and Motorhome Holidays products to the Australian and New Zealand markets.
The Alan Rogers Travel Service was the tour operating arm of the Alan Rogers Travel Group. The service focused on pitch and ferry bookings for camping, caravanning and motorhome holidays across the UK and Europe. Travel operations were moved to the Caravan Club in October 2015 as part of the takeover. [2]
Alan Rogers Travel Group was the UK agent for Camping Cheque, a French company that offers a fixed rate, low season scheme for campsite holidays. Along with the Alan Rogers Travel Service. The scheme closed in 2018 due to changes in the French organisation.
Alan Rogers Marketing was set up in the Netherlands in 2005 to assist campsites in promoting themselves at exhibitions and provide advertising opportunities, both within the guides themselves and in the Destinations magazine. The office in the Netherlands closed in 2016 with business to business marketing activities now taking place from the UK office. [3]
The Alan Rogers Travel Card was launched in 2012, a benefits scheme that offered cardholders perks at selected campsites. This scheme closed in 2015 following the takeover by the Caravan Club.
In 2012 the Mark Hammerton Group was acquired by The Caravan Club and a new company, the Alan Rogers Travel Group Ltd was formed. [4]
Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home, either without shelter or using basic shelter such as a tent or a recreational vehicle. Typically participants leave developed areas to spend time outdoors in more natural ones in pursuit of activities providing them enjoyment or an educational experience. The night spent outdoors distinguishes camping from day-tripping, picnicking, and other similarly short-term recreational activities.
A campsite or camping pitch is a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area. In British English, a campsite is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight using tents, campervans or caravans; this British English use of the word is synonymous with the US English expression campground. In American English, the term campsite generally means an area where an individual, family, group, or military unit can pitch a tent or park a camper; a campground may contain many campsites.
A recreational vehicle, often abbreviated as RV, is a motor vehicle or trailer which includes living quarters designed for accommodation. Types of RVs include motorhomes, campervans, coaches, caravans, fifth-wheel trailers, popup campers, and truck campers.
A caravan, travel trailer, camper, tourer or camper trailer is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent. It provides the means for people to have their own home on a journey or a vacation, without relying on a motel or hotel, and enables them to stay in places where none is available. However, in some countries campers are restricted to designated sites for which fees are payable.
Forest River Inc. is an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles, cargo trailers, utility trailers, pontoon boats, and buses.
A recreational vehicle park or caravan park is a place where people with recreational vehicles can stay overnight, or longer, in allotted spaces known as "sites" or "campsites". They are also referred to as campgrounds, though a true campground also provides facilities for tent camping; many facilities calling themselves "RV parks" also offer tent camping or cabins with limited facilities.
The Caravan and Motorhome Club is an organisation representing caravan and motorhome users in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly one million members.
Airstream is an American brand of caravan easily recognized by the distinctive shape of its rounded and polished aluminum coachwork. This body shape dates back to the 1930s and is based on the Bowlus Road Chief, an earlier all-aluminum travel trailer designed and built by Hawley Bowlus, the same designer and engineer who also oversaw the construction of the Spirit of St. Louis.
Mark Hammerton Group Ltd was a UK-based travel organiser and travel publisher specialising in camping, caravanning, motorhome and mobile home holidays on campsites in France, Spain, Italy and other European countries. The Group published the market-leading Alan Rogers campsites guides and offered a European travel service for readers including ferry bookings. The Group was acquired by The Caravan Club in 2012 under the brand Alan Rogers Travel Group, along with its subsidiary company Belle France, which offers walking and cycling hotel holidays.
Alan Rogers was one of the major personalities whose work created the camping, caravanning and motor caravan industry. After service in the British RAF in the Second World War, Alan devoted his post-war leisure time to his twin passions of rallying and caravanning.
The Alan Rogers Guides were started in Britain in 1968 by camp enthusiast Alan Rogers. The guides place utmost importance on the quality of the campsites; campsites cannot pay to be in the guide. Travel guides have been published every year since 1968. In 2018, Alan Rogers Guides celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Webjet Limited is a global digital travel business operating in both consumer (B2C) and wholesale (B2B) markets. Webjet Limited's Registered Office is located in Melbourne, Australia.
Swift Leisure are a British manufacturer of leisure vehicles, including caravans and motorhomes. Started in 1964, the company is based in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.
The Camping and Caravanning Club is a United Kingdom not-for-profit organisation involved with all aspects of camping based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1901, the club now represents over half a million members.
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Eurocamp is a British holiday company based in Cheshire that provides pre-sited outdoor holidays in Europe to over 500,000 holidaymakers each year. The company works with third party partner campsites and holiday villages to offer beach, city and countryside holidays to over 180 parcs across Europe, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Croatia.
Trip.com is an international online travel agency. The website is owned by Trip.com Group, one of the world's largest online travel agencies with over 400 million users worldwide, and also the parent of Skyscanner.
Thrybergh Country Park is a reservoir and nature reserve in South Yorkshire. It is located between Thrybergh and Hooton Roberts on the outskirts of Rotherham and opened in 1983.
Noosa River Caravan Park is a heritage-listed caravan park at Russell Street, Noosaville, Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1929 onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 April 2009.
Thomas Cook Tourism (UK) Company Limited, known as Thomas Cook UK, is an Anglo-Chinese package holiday provider which offers 'Flight + Hotel' packages and Hotel only bookings. The company was launched in 2019, when Chinese firm Fosun International purchased the brand from the insolvent Thomas Cook Group, and began trading in September 2020.
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