Good morning All

Perusing the forums and sites this morning I see that despite these lean economic times Elddis are launching 3 new Touring Caravans which will debut at the NEC Show in Birmingham next February. This is a huge boost for the Touring Caravan industry in the UK at the moment andshows the faith from Elddis in the market.

However, due to touring caravan manufacturers cutting back on the number of units made in the face of the recession if you reserve your 2010 van now you can expect to take delivery in June 2010! It appears that manufacturers scaled back production too much in the face of their concerns for the Touring Caravan market, and are now rushing to arrange more vans to be made.

Many Touring Caravanners are going to have buy a used van at the moment so the message from the Touring Caravan Industry is order quickly to avoid disappointment!

Happy touring

Mike

Dear All

Reports coming out of the NEC Caravan Show in Birmingham are showing positive signs for the Caravan Industry with top manufacturers like Elddis and Bailey part of a first day sales drive of around 400 vans (estimated worth of the touring caravans around £6million!).

There was also an increase of visitors of more than 10% which makes 2009 the most popular show in history with around 78,000 people! Around 3,000 of these visitors signed up for a brand new Touring caravan as well which is an excellent sign that the industry is thriving in these difficult times. We may be seeing the green shoots of recovery for the economy in that around £45 million of vans were purchased at the show!

We have seen the impact of the shows ourselves from our sponsoring of the increasingly popular Spring Fair in Newark which we are attending again in 2010 as noted on previous blog articles. I will hopefully be there myself but this is dependant on family commitments at the time, keep your eyes peeled for updates!

Happy touring

Mike

It was with real shock and great sadness that we found out yesterday that Eric Gwilt, the man behind the website Caravanning4u passed away. I had only been talking with him by email the day before he died.

Eric has helped and assisted us hugely and his death is a shock to us all.

May you rest in peace Eric because God knows you have earned that right.

With our love and thoughts to all your family.

Richard

www.caravanning4u.co.uk

Hi,

Mike and I attended the Caravan Show at the NEC last week and had a cracking time.

We spent alot of time looking at all the Tourers and Motor Homes we are being asked to Insure and we spoke with a variety of people.

The sales staff were suggesting a good sales rate for the show – not sure if they were telling the truth but if theye were then the recession has not effected the Caravan market yet then!

I was happy that we did not attend in a professional capacity with a stand etc as these shows are very expensive and we can put that investment to much better use by improving our systems and rates etc.

We will be adding some photos shortly of the day so watch this space!

Richard