In 2021, when pandemic restrictions curtailed travel, occupancy at Getaway — a collection of 30 forested properties around the country, with tiny cabins renting from $109 a night — surged above 99%.
“In the aftermath of the pandemic, this trend is solidifying,” said Jan Freitag, the national director of hospitality analytics at CoStar, a real estate analytics firm, noting that many who experimented with outdoor activities for the first time in the crisis became hooked. He also noted that on the operations side, construction costs are more moderate in rural locations.
Compared with the more boutique-hotel-style AutoCamp, “Field Station is for people who really want to get outdoors and get active,” Dipaola said. “Inclusion is about a lower price point, embracing people at all levels of ability and actively inviting people in from all different ethnicities, backgrounds, colors, races and persuasions,” Dipaola said.LOGE Camps were born out of co-founder and CEO Cale Genenbacher’s inability to find affordable hotels in outdoor recreation areas with easy access to rental gear, good coffee and a convivial social setting around a bonfire.
Sandalow: Stop calls for Feinstein to resign from Senate Assessing whether someone else could better represent the state is impossible without knowing who that replacement would be Affordability is central to the business, whose rooms start around $80 a night and peak at around $250.