Perhaps no commercial trend has consistently impacted the RV marketplace in recent years more than the ongoing consolidation of retail RV dealerships and the emergence of a wide array of independent dealer groups of various shapes and sizes. And while today’s...
A year after 2022’s COVID restrictions were lifted by organizers of the Boston RV & Camping Expo, which concluded Monday after a Jan. 13-16 run at the 516,000-square-foot Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the 2023 round of the bellwether New England show...
Was the 48th Annual Valley RV & Camping Show, which took place Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 12-15, at the Century Center in downtown South Bend, Ind., a reflection of what the industry is seeing throughout the marketplace right now? That’s the question we were...
During the peak of the latest camping season, Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) President and CEO Toby O’Rourke spent some time at a Montana camp the charity supports where she mingled with some of the children dealing with cancer. In the video below, O’Rourke...
The chief executives of the U.S. RV industry’s two largest manufacturers, Forest River Inc. and THOR Industries Inc., confirmed Tuesday (April 26) that they’ve agreed to hold this year’s Elkhart RV Dealer Open House on the week of Sept. 26 after a two-year hiatus due...
Facing many of the same hurdles as the rest of the North American business community over the past year and a half, Mesa, Ariz.-based Cruise America – North America’s leading conventional RV rental firm – continues to experience a strong influx of rental business this...
The North American RV industry, by and large, seems to have done a pretty good job of making the best of a tough situation this week after the annual Elkhart RV Open House – now the industry’s only national-scale trade show – was cancelled for the second year in a row...
The biggest question within the RV Industry lately was answered Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 8) when market leaders THOR Industries Inc. and Forest River Inc. jointly announced their decision to step away for the second consecutive year from the 2021 Elkhart RV Open...
After several months of speculation within the ranks of the RV industry about the status of this year’s key industry trade show – the Elkhart RV Open House – Forest River Inc. President and CEO Pete Liegl has confirmed that this year’s Open House will kick off on...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt stopped by Elkhart’s RV/MH Hall of Fame late Tuesday (Aug. 18) afternoon for a tour of the industry’s unique attraction near the Indiana Toll Road and a remarkably casual Woodall’s Campground Management interview...
No one could have predicted back in early May, coming off a national commercial shutdown triggered by a global health crisis, that a surprising recovery like the industry is experiencing right now would occur as it has and that 64% of those responding to an RVB/Wells...
Forest River Inc., Thor Industries Inc. and Winnebago Industries Inc., the RV arena’s three largest RV builders, confirmed late Tuesday afternoon (July 14) that they were pulling out of this fall’s 2020 Elkhart Open House due to ongoing concerns about the coronavirus...
