Archive for May, 2006
>Vacationers are feeling pains at the gas pump just like the rest of us. Now local campgrounds are reporting a slump in business.
The owners say it could have a negative effect on the local economy.
Fewer families are visiting the Tuckaleechee Campgrounds in Townsend, KY than this same time last year.
“We’ve had a lot of cancellations. The ones that would come like from Illinois, somewhere like that, right now we don’t have them,” campground manager Nadine Lindsey explained. Full Story…
>The film “RV,” sends a good message about the business that drives a large part of Elkhart County’s economy, industry experts said.
Mostly.
“The RV industry didn’t make the movie, Hollywood did, so you’re going to see over-the-top situations,” said Phil Ingrassia, vice president of communications for the National RV Dealers Association in Fairfax, Va.
Sure, it reinforces some stereotypes about the people who drive RVs, “but when you clear all that away, you get some real good family bonding messages,” he said. Full Story…

