Eurocamp

Last updated
Eurocamp
Company type Private
Industry Leisure
Founded1973
FounderAlan Goulding
Headquarters Hartford, Cheshire

Eurocamp is a British holiday company based in Cheshire that provides pre-sited outdoor holidays in Continental Europe. The company works with third party partner campsites and holiday villages to offer beach, city and countryside holidays to approximately 180 parks in Europe, [1] including in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Croatia.

Contents

As part of their holiday packages, Eurocamp provide services such as kids' clubs. [2]

History

Founded in 1973 by Alan Goulding in Knutsford, Cheshire, [3] Eurocamp Travel Ltd sold pre-sited tent holidays to a single campsite in Brittany.

In 1981, Goulding sold the family-run business to retail group Combined English Stores, [4] which was bought by Next plc in 1987. Throughout the 1980s, Eurocamp added additional locations and introduced mobile home accommodation products. [5]

In 1987, Eurocamp launched Eurocamp Independent, where vacationers bring their own camping equipment and motor homes but use other Eurocamp amenities. [6]

Following a management buy-out in 1988, Eurocamp plc was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991. [7] In the mid-1990s, Eurocamp expanded through several acquisitions outside the camping holiday sector, including the 1995 merger with Superbreak. In 1998, Eurocamp plc acquired Keycamp Holidays and changed its name to Holidaybreak plc. By that time, competitors Sunsites and French Country Camping had also been acquired. Airtours' camping product Eurosites was purchased in 2002. By then, few competitors remained, Haven being the largest. In 2011, global travel company Cox & Kings bought Holidaybreak plc, with Eurocamp the main part of its camping division. In 2014, Eurocamp was purchased by Homair Vacances Group. [8]

Holiday parks and resorts

As of 2022, there were approximately 180 Eurocamp resorts located in Europe.[ citation needed ]

Austria

Croatia

France

Germany

Luxembourg

Italy

The Netherlands

Spain

Switzerland

International presence

Eurocamp has sales operations in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Poland.[ citation needed ]

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