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Travel companies have been snapping up primo campsites in British Columbia parks and reselling them to European tourists while unhappy campers in the province face a “sold-out” summer at their favorite parks.
Business has been booming at Canadian Camping Adventures, a Salmon Arm company that specializes in reserving campsites and reselling them in tour packages to campers from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U.S.
“It’s been crazy,” said company official Carla de Ronde.
Canadian Camping Adventures has teamed up with European tour operators and two large motorhome rental companies — Fraserway RV and Canadream — to offer the camping packages to foreign visitors.
“If you book a motorhome you can pick a campground tour at the same time and they order it through us,” de Ronde explained.
The firm books campsites at provincial parks using the British Columbia government’s Discover Camping reservation website, she said.
“We have two people working for us and what we can book, we book,” de Ronde said, adding the company uses a computerized spreadsheet system to match foreign customers with campsites.
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