{"id":389420,"date":"2026-01-25T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:37:09","slug":"could-the-traditional-british-caravan-holiday-be-about-to-get-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389420\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the traditional British caravan holiday be about to get a makeover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The arrival of such futuristic designs marks a sharp departure from how we have traditionally holidayed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horse-drawn caravans were used as mobile homes in the early 19th Century, but leisure caravanning expanded rapidly after World War One. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first true commercial touring caravan, designed specifically to be towed by a car, was launched by Eccles Motor Transport in 1919. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over time, toilets, showers and kitchens were added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet, the internal layout established by those early models still defines most caravans on Britain&#8217;s roads and holiday parks today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demand grew rapidly in the post-World War Two decades, as the appetite for affordable domestic holidays surged, and dedicated holiday parks spread across coastal and rural Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their familiar design has helped make caravan holidays a mainstay of British tourism, particularly in Wales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arrival of such futuristic designs marks a sharp departure from how we have traditionally holidayed. Horse-drawn caravans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}