Camping was originally defined as staying in a tent in nature as an inexpensive accommodation option when on holiday. In its various forms, camping has been touched upon by tourism research related to nature, second homes, scenic-drive tourism, and the like. Today, the subject is closely connected with cars, as motorized vehicles enable people to travel further and for longer periods while bringing along camping equipment. Such equipment has become increasingly specialized over the years with customized solutions targeting this particular type of holidaymakers.
Therefore, camping has its roots in scenic-drive tourism which enables the bringing of a “home” in the form of recreational vehicles, such as “caravans, pop-tops, campervans, camper-trailers, tent-trailers, motor homes, slide-ons, and fifth wheelers” (Caldicott and Scherrer 2013: 128). With the popularization of scenic-drive tourism, camping became a widespread holiday where people brought their recreational vehicle out in...
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Blichfeldt, B.S., Mikkelsen, M.V. (2016). Camping tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_468
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