Regulation, pricing and organisation for people who run a campground.
Whether you are obliged is not up for debate: a campground is an accommodation business and art. 109 TULPS applies to you. The real problem is doing it on changeover Saturday, with eighty arrivals in four hours. Here is how you organise the flow.
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The monthly survey is not difficult: it is ambiguous. Does a seasonal guest count as one arrival or as a hundred and eighty guest-nights? Does the bungalow go on the same line as the tent pitch? Here are the counting rules that trip campgrounds up.
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Guides to tourism compliance are written for hotels. A campground has its own fire safety code, a pool that is an activity in its own right, accommodation that has to be registered unit by unit and three tills instead of one. Here is the part nobody tells you about.
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Since 2020 the operator is no longer a simple collector: they are liable for the tax. If you collect less than you owe, you make up the difference. And at a campground, between age exemptions, night caps and seasonal guests, collecting less than you owe is very easy.
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The nightly price tells you nothing. A €24 tent pitch and a €95 mobile home cannot be compared until you factor in occupancy and variable costs. Here is the calculation, on a 180-unit campground, with the full table.
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Eighty arrivals in four hours, eight minutes per party, two desks. Do the sum and you find the queue is nobody's fault: it is arithmetic, and it grows until the arrivals stop. Here are the three ways to make it disappear, with the numbers.
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In peak August you turn bookings away with a hundred and fifty free nights on the calendar. It is not a bug: it is fragmentation. Here is how it happens, what it costs in euros at a ninety-pitch campground, and how you compact it.
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A demo lasts an hour and they run it on their data, where everything works. These twelve questions bring it back to your campground. By the twelfth, you usually know whether the software was born for the open air or for hotels.
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