Timbo
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See website.
Just interested to know your approximate location?
Web address?Just interested to know your approximate location?
Not one to blow my own trumpet, but - http://www.shropshireluxuryglamping.co.uk -
Personally, I would not have stopped, would have upped the push.
A blessing and a curse! But if you do ever need any advice, happy to help. Glamping is changing all the time.
I was thinking about ROI in relation to farming and diversification while doing the stock this morning. my clamping site covers 7 acres and is tucked away behind my yard. do you include the current value of 7 acres, which would never have been sold, or do you just include the lost opportunity cost of the land? (ie what it would have earned doing something else, or which it could never do in future) realistically the glamping site could be shut and returned to its previous use in days. my site was arable land, which I converted to grazing for my livery yard, then dug a lake and landscaped for Glamping. the lake obviously can't be returned to grazing quickly!
if you just worked on ROI and included capital costs nobody would farm. with arable land at £10k/acre, I rent all mine out and get maybe £125-150/acre is a return of 1.2% I also farm poultry which is very capital cost heavy, each shed cost half a million and returns in about 8 years, I have three of those. but my fireball business has no assets, cost about 5k to set up and turns over 700-1million on an average year and runs a very healthy profit margin, I don't even know how to calculate that as its success is based on my artistic and more importantly marketing skills, and not a physical asset? is any business that does not get at least 50% ROI bad?
I think maybe a mixed portfolio of businesses with varying ROI and more importantly varying calls on your time as the person running the business. I do little in my arable, poultry, horses, storage and rented units businesses, but spend an extortionate amount of time on my Firepit business! is there a calculation that expresses time and investment?!
sorry for the ramble, but its made me think this morning!
What is a sustainable cabin ?Absolutely changing, we're seeing that "Glamping" is on the way out with much more sustainable cabins taking over. Nightly rates are on the rise, occupancy never higher.
What is a sustainable cabin ?
Mud hutWhat is a sustainable cabin ?
Keep sharingWooden, solar powered, soak away, compost toilet, highly efficient stove etc. There's a new movement for more isolated and sustainable retreats, which comes with much higher returns.
Happy to share more
Roulottes , maybe a noveltyWooden, solar powered, soak away, compost toilet, highly efficient stove etc. There's a new movement for more isolated and sustainable retreats, which comes with much higher returns.
Happy to share more
I don't agree that punters want the 'green sustainable' experience, people hate compost loos. they want to feel like its sustainable (pay lip service to it) but in reality is luxurious. to someone out of London just being in a green field feels 'back to nature' but they do want the luxury, they don't want shared loos and showers etc. its dangerous game to base your business plan on the publics moral fads and fashions. what people say they care about and what they spend there money on are two different things!
Wooden, solar powered, soak away, compost toilet, highly efficient stove etc. There's a new movement for more isolated and sustainable retreats, which comes with much higher returns.
Happy to share more
Chap I know has built 2 high spec wooden cabins on the Hfds /Powys border .They look
very good but I wonder what the projected lifespan of these buildings are?
He is doing pretty good looking at his bookings but next yearYoud be better off considering the lifespan of the demand than the physical property. If you don't move with the trend you're a dead duck.
Chap I know has built 2 high spec wooden cabins on the Hfds /Powys border .They look
very good but I wonder what the projected lifespan of these buildings are?
He is doing pretty good looking at his bookings but next year
could be different if everyone goes abroad.