Jennifer Burgis, from Burton Springs Holidays and Fishing near Bridgwater, said the hot weather has been as bad for business as rain.<\/p>\n
“Everyone says you’ve got all this sunshine it must be great for camping. But I’m like, not really,” she said,<\/p>\n
She said the recent hot sunny weather is “making people stay away” or “change their booking”.<\/p>\n
Camping and motorhome bookings at the site are down by about 25%, she added, while glamping accommodation, including bell tents and pods, is up by around 7%.<\/p>\n
“People would be ringing to cancel at the peak of the heatwave because they had dogs, or children or elderly relatives and just didn’t want to put a tent up. <\/p>\n
“And some people would ask to move into the glamping\u2026. so I guess people are saying I don’t want to put a tent up in the heat so let’s go glamping where everything is there and done.”<\/p>\n
She added that the high temperatures have also been bad for fishing as their lake levels have fallen and oxygen levels drop when this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Burgis, from Burton Springs Holidays and Fishing near Bridgwater, said the hot weather has been as bad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727032","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=727032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}