CampInn is the brainchild of Ido Perry, who set up the company in 2018 after a frustrating camping holiday, where with his wife and 3 young kids, he found that booking camping pitches was a frustrating and time-consuming business – sometimes involving the camper arriving at the site to find the last space already taken.
With a background as an experienced business developer, international tax consultant, lawyer, major in the reserves and a father, he realised that there had to be an easier way – both for the camper and for the site. “You think camping is the simple life? Think again,” he says. “We were not happy campers. I did my research into this sector and asked myself – why don’t the Booking.com’s, the Expedia’s and the meta searches of the world attend to the massive $20bn camping market, which is growing all the time?”
This was when CampInn was born – Ido has created a cross-market, multilingual, automated booking platform for glampsites, campsites and soon to come are also the ancillary outdoor services, such as bike hire or kayak rental, where it is easy to compare, book and manage reservations and payments.
With CampInn, campsites join for free and when campers book – the site gets a booking success fee – so everyone’s a winner – campers enjoy a simple booking experience and campsites have an online presence and increased bookings.
“Before committing to this idea I put in 1O thousand kilometers, door to door, I’ve surveyed, researched and understood campers’ behaviour, how the industry is structured and how it is currently served,” adds Ido. “There are over a trillion nights spent at campsites – but I understand it isn’t going to be easy to win over every campsite owner – some of whom might still be using pen and paper to manage their businesses.
“But I’m confident we’ll succeed as I managed to convert Nancy – who wasn’t a big fan at first. When she realized that CampInn will cut her need for email and telephone communication by more than half, she joined us.”
CampInn has an outstanding support team in the UK, Europe, the Palestine Authority and Israel and is building up a significant number of glampsites and campsites, starting in Italy, Portugal and Austria with new countries joining all the time. Visit CampInn.com to find out more
