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7 | DECEMBER 2013

Summer 2013 Occupancy Report
The summer of 2013 definitely had it challenges. June was wet,
July showed promise of hot weather to come – but it never really
showed up. The fall was the best weather of the summer – unfortunately by then many people had given up and stopped camping.
After the 2nd week of August, the traffic on the website fell to some
of the lowest levels.
To obtain occupancy numbers for the province, this year we
changed how we asked for the information from campground
owners. This change resulted in 169 campgrounds or 41% of the
membership reporting their occupancy numbers for the summer.
We asked for overnight and seasonal occupancy, as well as sales in
campground stores.
The chart below indicates that we had a range of response rates
from as low as 27% of campgrounds reporting in one region to a
high of 71% in another. Region 7 (Grey-Bruce-Simcoe) had the largest number of campgrounds responding to the survey with 30 responding while Region 3 (Hamilton-Halton) had the lowest rate of
campgrounds responding to the survey with only 3 out of 11 campgrounds responding.

Region

# of campgrounds
reporting

% of campgrounds
reporting

1

18

42%

2

5

33%

3

3

30%

4

15

56%

5 and 6

9

50%

7

30

43%

8

24

42%

9

14

32%

10

5

71%

11

12

25%

12

11

39%

13 A

18

60%

13 B & C

5

27%

Total Province

169

42%

Seasonal Occupancy

Regions 4 (Waterloo), 12 (Muskokas) and 13A (East-Northern Ontario) were the only regions that did not experience any decrease in their
seasonal occupancy numbers. Regions 2 (Niagara) and 7 reported the most consistent decreases in seasonal camping, with campgrounds
reporting decreases from just under 5% to over 10%. Region 4 had the highest percentage of campgrounds reporting no change in their
seasonal business from the summer of 2012.Region 13A had almost 28% of their campgrounds report an increase of over 10% for their seasonal camping.