Ways Glamping Pod Manufacturers Can Turn Your Business Around

We often talk about the glamping industry’s rise, and whilst it still doesn’t match the audience of it’s camping counterpart, it’s safe to say that it’s a market with growing potential. 

Glamping sites are popping up everywhere in the UK, landowners are using their assets to create a business for themselves and a place for guests to relax and take themselves away from their everyday lives. 

Needless to say, the saturation of the market has created a sense of quantity over quality and in essence, it’s getting more and more difficult for one glamping site to look different from the other. 

Why is this the case? One reason may be that with the saturation of glamping site owners, a similar saturation of glamping pod manufacturers has followed. More and more frequently, we see the same traditional ‘glamping structure’ being offered by these new and emerging manufacturers. On one hand, the appeal is understandable, as they’re fairly easy to build and cost-effective. Unfortunately, the quality of the pod suffers!

We regularly see enthusiastic glamping business owners who go for these types of units because they just don’t know where to start and what to do, so the cheapest and easiest glamping pod sounds like the best option. However, glamping pod manufacturers can offer so much more to your business than building cheap and easy to make structures. 

Let’s break down some of the things a professional glamping pod manufacturer can offer outside the realm of just making standard units. Believe it or not, working with a professional outfit could help you turn your glamping business around and create something special.

Helping Define Your Glamping Project’s Feasibility

As we mentioned before, some glamping business owners just don’t know where to begin, but where do you start? With a feasibility study.

This study is designed to answer all of your questions for your glamping project. If you’re just beginning your journey as a glamping business, this is especially important, it helps you define the challenges ahead, your return on investment, competitors and the feasibility of your planning application. 

Yes, you’re probably thinking that this hasn’t made starting a glamping project any clearer, that’s why choosing a manufacturer who offers a feasibility service is a smart choice. It’s a massive time saver for you and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you have glamping experts who are giving their wealth of knowledge to discover the feasibility of your site’s success.

Support You With Getting Planning Permission

It’s almost a guarantee that you’ll be needing to submit a planning permission application to your local council. Here is it broken down into two parts: pre-planning and full planning applications. 

While a pre-planning application is not a compulsory step, we highly recommend it to receive a good steer from local planning authorities. With your pre-planning submitted, you’ll be better prepared for your full planning application.

Again, most professional manufactures will offer services to assist you in planning permission. If you have an architect who is already working on the application, they can work alongside them to ensure you approach this application in the best way. Or, manufacturers will be more than happy to assist you fully, producing all the documentation and drawings you’ll need when it comes to submitting. 

Make Your Glampsite Sustainable

If you’re at the stage where you’re ready to start designing glamping pods, the look and feel of it is not the only thing to consider. In a world where the environment is one of the most talked about issues, it’s important to make sure that you are doing what you can, to protect it. 

An objection that we often hear in the planning application process are concerns about the environmental damage a glamping site could bear on the land and community around it. The very appeal of a glamping holiday is for people to step away from the digital world and embrace the nature around them. It doesn’t sit right that these places are actually causing damage to nature which surrounds them.

This is why you should always choose a manufacturer who has taken these issues into consideration. Using reclaimed timber and installing environmentally friendly energy sources are just two of the many ways you can do this. At Enchanted Creations, we’ve personally worked with eco-structure experts to create sustainable glamping sites. Not only are we building a business to create amazing experiences for right now, but we’re helping the planet for future generations.

Create an Experiential Destination

You’ll see that we talk about experiences a lot throughout our website. Guests are looking for destinations that are unique, memorable and ‘instagrammable’ - this all comes into the experience the destination creates.

As previously discussed, the standard ‘glamping unit’ just simply isn’t enough anymore. Glamping businesses need bespoke accommodation that stands out in the crowd of glamping site lookalikes. In short, the whole point of your glamping project is to have a thriving business, right? So ask yourself, why would you not want to differentiate yourself from the rest? The best manufacturers know the importance of individualism, and that’s why they offer a large range of services to accommodate your vision.