Germany Camping and Caravanning Market Report 2024
Despite rising costs, camping remains an affordable holiday option. However, most potential campers seek additional amenities to enhance their experience.
Despite rising costs, camping remains an affordable holiday option. However, most potential campers seek additional amenities to enhance their experience.
With inflation stabilising, well-off consumers have more disposable income, increasing interest in upgrades and luxurious glamping. Looking to the future, sustainability and nature-centric experiences are poised to remain key trends.
Despite rising costs, camping remains an affordable holiday option. However, most potential campers seek additional amenities, such as private bathrooms, to enhance their experience.
The demand for additional offers ties in with inflation levelling off, giving financially stable Germans more money to spend on holidays, while those less affluent continue to face financial challenges. Camping brands can cater to wealthier consumers with premium experiences while promoting basic camping options as a cost-effective alternative for less affluent ones.
Some non-campers perceive camping as a low-quality holiday, with almost half of non-camping Germans siting sleeping as a barrier. Campsites can address their concerns and step up efforts to promote higher-quality accommodations to non-campers.
Introducing luxurious, weatherproof accommodations can help camping brands to broaden target groups and expand into the off-season. With immediate access to nature being the top campsite choice factor among potential campers, blending luxury with nature and wellness, can help campsites to meet the zeitgeist, fostering market growth.
This report covers attitudes and behaviours of German consumers aged 16+ regarding holidays that involve any type of flexible accommodation such as tents, caravans or motorhomes or alternatively static accommodation such as caravan holiday homes, lodges or ‘glamping’ accommodation. It examines Germans’ participation and interest in camping/caravanning and how brands can find appeal among Germans. The market size for this report is based on arrivals and value sales for campsites.
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With inflation leveling off, camping brands can cater to affluent campers by blending luxury and nature (eg outdoor wellness) while continuing to offer basic options to those less affluent.
Silvia Hondt
Research Analyst – Travel & Leisure