Unfortunately, also the Christmas and New Year's holidays fall through for most of us. It’s a great pity, because our winter sports Leadings worked intensively for your safe stay in the snow. Zugspitz Resort owner Franz Dengg explained the problems in the German ‘Tagesschau’ on prime time on December 2^nd - but his horror at the loss of Christmas business had no softening effect on the government in Vienna. Camping Aufenfeld put everything to it, to get the new Wiesenhof apartment house ready on time for December 15^th. Now it won't be accommodating guests on the opening date. Also our wintering destinations in the south report only restrained demand. And now that even bigger New Year's Eve fireworks have been banished, we have decided to ensure cheerfulness with a real fireworks of Advent calendar gifts: Not only our LeadingCampings Advent calendar on Instagram and Facebook enjoys great popularity - no wonder as you can win a full week of camping stay every day. We have also filled the Advent calendars of the motorhome rental company roadfans, of PiNCAMP, of our new quality motorhome partner Malibu and of Dolde Medien with attractive Leading prizes, at least behind some doors. Take a good look everywhere! A turbulent and extraordinary year in every respect comes to an end. It only remains for us, to wish you and your families health, happiness and many beautiful trips to LeadingCampings in the future. We look forward to seeing you in 2021! We used a photo from the Chicago Tribune for our image above.  

LeadingsClub

Welcome in the LeadingClub! Each month there is a lucky winner of a "feel good camping week" at a different campsite amongst the club members. The winner of the LeadingCamping week of November 2020 is Monika H. from Frasnacht in Switzerland. She may look forward to having a treat at the Holiday Resort Piani di Clodia at the Lake Garda in Italy. Have a look what this campsite has to offer at www.pianidiclodia.it The LeadingCard is the entrée into the LeadingsClub. The most popular benefits at a glance:

1. Every month a raffle of a full week's stay at one of the LeadingCampings, restaurant meals, wellness, sports and fun included.
2. Late check-out and pitch upgrade*
3. Preferential reception and/or reserved counter for LeadingsClub.*
4. Benefits and privileges on every LeadingCamping for club members, including overnight stays for bonus points (not on all LeadingCampings).*
5. Reserved space in leadingcampings.com website where you can control your point account, find current offers and much more interesting information.
   

* Examples of the various LeadingsClub. Offers can vary from campsite to campsite and are not available at every LeadingCamping.

Danish Leading 

Feddet Strand Resort is something special in many respects: Above all, it is the extraordinary location. The camping site lies on a narrow peninsula being mainly natural stretching far out into the Baltic Sea. And mother nature takes more and more over, as formerly resident farms are being abandoned. Once, there was also a small harbour, from which the stones quarried in a quarry near Faxe were shipped on small barges. Nowadays guest boats are lying in the small harbour. The mixed forest is home for many animals; one can easily encounter deer. Iceland horses serve for rides, whereas goats can be petted. Cattle and sheep keep the undergrowth short. Migratory birds rest at the end of the peninsula. They can be photographed from the observation tower. But Feddet has other sides, too: with an indoor swimming pool, special playgrounds, adventure mini-golf, the campsite is excellently equipped - where else do you have the opportunity to train e-motocross under expert guidance? The gaming room is also unprecedented. In addition, Feddet Strand, is excellently connected for all its seclusion and rural idyll: Just a stone's throw away from the highway, it's on the ‘Vogelfluglinie’, about an hour's drive from both the ferry port of Rødby and the capital, Copenhagen. The equipment with guest kitchens and family bathrooms are typically Danish, everything is clean as a whistle clean and functionally equipped. More information: www.feddetcamping.dk

3-word-navigation

In 2018, we first featured three-word addresses in the Holiday Guide and on leadingcampings.com for the first time. By then it was exotic, but we believed in the revolutionary navigation idea from England. By 2021, however, it will slowly but surely become mainstream: Soon, four out of five new cars will feature What3Words navigation. 150 million cars around the world using Here We Go Navigation will have What3Words added, including Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Land Rover, Hyundai, Kia and, most recently, Mitsubishi. "Here" is embedded in 4 out of 5 new cars sold, and the deal with What3Words will greatly accelerate the spread of three-word addresses. In vehicles with voice assistants, What3Words lets drivers set a navigation destination by simply speaking three unique words. What3Words divides the world into a precise grid of three-by-three-square metres. Each has a unique combination of three unique words - a What3Words address.
‘Using a traditional address in a vehicle can be stressful’, says Chris Sheldrick, CEO of What3Words. ‘It can be bulky and lengthy to type, and even a voice assistant will often get you wrong.’ Additionally, accuracy is imprecisely, especially for large sites like premises or campgrounds. LeadingCampings always indicates the area of the entry barrier or check-in parking lot. Chris Sheldrick expects the feature to be available quickly for both new cars and those already on the road. We are very pleased to have been part of this success story from the beginning.

Six out of ten  

Among the top ten most popular campsites in Germany are six LeadingCampings. The ADAC camping portal PiNCAMP has filtered out the 100 most popular German campsites in 2020. Six of the top ten are LeadingCampings. As in the previous year, the Camping- und Ferienpark Wulfener Hals takes first place. The ADAC Superplatz certainly owes its success to its wide range of offers and its versatility: It is not only located directly on a 1.3-kilometer-long section of the Baltic Sea beach, but also offers own beach sections for textiles and nudist campers as well as guests with dogs. For sports enthusiasts, the large surfing and diving school ensures exciting hours, while kids forget about time in the circus tent. Golfers can enjoy an 18-hole course, and those, who want to take a break from everyday life, can sweat in the sauna or get a good kneading. In the evenings, an entertainment programme brings the family together, and when the kids are in bed, the grown-ups can shake a leg in the disco.

2^nd place: Campingpark Havelberge, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (previous year 5^th place)
4^th place: Strandcamping Waging.
5^th place: Alfsee Ferien- und Erholungspark
7^th place: Camping Wirthshof. (previous year 46^th place, largest improvement of all LeadingCampings!)
9^th place: Camping Hopfensee
The following German campsites are as well in the upper half of the top 100:
12^th place: Sdsee-Camp, 35^th Campingpark Luxoase, 39^th Kur- und Feriencamping Holmernhof Dreiquellenbad
Further information: www.pincamp.de/campingplaetze

Campmaster go!

It has already been published and we have reported it here and there: We make camping academic. The push, that camping has received in recent years, urgently requires a professionalisation of the management on site. This is the reason why we as LeadingCampings were happy to become a partner in an EU-funded Erasmus Plus project. Together with three universities, which have already gained a worldwide reputation in the education of tourism professionals, we are launching the master's programme "Sustainable Campground Management". The university course will be held in English, and students will spend one academic year each at the University of Breda (NL), the University of Girona (E) and the University of Rijeka (HR). The fourth year of study is designed as a practical semester and is completed at a LeadingCamping. There the students choose the topic for their final thesis and write it. Originally, the course was to be offered from September 2021 onwards, but Corona is causing delays in approval by the EU and at the universities. The start has to be postponed by a year. The official "kick-off" of the Campmaster project took place on October 30^th at a meeting of the project partners at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Rijeka. It is situated in the tranquil town of Opatija on the Istrian east coast facing the Kvarner Bay. Now the first step is to outline the contents of the course. In order to meet all practical requirements, one of the three partner universities has developed questionnaires. They will find out on one hand from camping entrepreneurs what they expect from the future master graduates - on the other hand what students in the fourth bachelor or first master year would like to find for study contents.