Holiday Park News

Tributes Pour In

Posted on February 9, 2017
Willerby Holiday Homes announced the sad passing of its Export Sales Manager Martin Savage.

Willerby Holiday Homes
announced the sad passing of its Export
Sales Manager Martin Savage.

Tributes Pour In

Willerby Holiday Homes has paid tribute to its Export Sales Manager Martin Savage, who has died suddenly at the age of 58.

Having worked for Willerby for the last three years, Martin looked after sales throughout Europe, drawing in part on the long-term relationships he had established in France, where he’d spent the last three decades.

During his career, he’d held the position of Export Area Sales Manager for several big names in the industry prior to working with Willerby, including ABI, Cosalt and Atlas.

For a number of years, he also worked as area manager in France for Queensborough Holdings, who owned a number of parks in the country. Willerby’s sales director, Keith Holland commented: “It was a pleasure to work with Martin over the course of the last three years at Willerby. He was a fantastic salesman - always charming and full of good humour. Martin will be sadly missed, not just by all of us at Willerby, but by the wider industry as he had such an impact during his career.”

Invisible Pool Blanket Dramatically Cuts Gas Bill

Posted on February 9, 2015

Invisible Pool Blanket Dramatically Cuts Gas Bill

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Heatsavr has saved Hoburne Holiday Parks thousands of pounds on pool heating costs at the Devon Bay resort.

Hoburne Holiday Parks has saved thousands of pounds on its gas bills, following the introduction of Heatsavr liquid pool cover in the indoor pool at its site in Torbay.

Heatsavr was first used at the park in 2011, in a bid to reduce the gas consumption used to maintain the temperature of the pool and the humidity within the pool hall. Results from an independent analysis by EEVS, the UK’s leading provider of performance measurement and verification services for energy, reveal that Heatsavr has reduced gas usage at the park by 21.7 per cent, the equivalent of £4,500 cost saving per year.

Heatsavr, the original liquid pool cover, was first introduced to the UK leisure industry almost a decade ago. Many commercial pool operators and domestic owners have adopted the technology and enjoyed considerable energy savings, as well as the benefit of a simple pool cover system that works 24 hours a day.

Heatsavr works by slowing evaporation from the pool’s surface. The Heatsavr monolayer spreads across the water and traps energy and moisture within the pool. In an indoor pool, energy savings relate not only to pool water heating but also to the ability to turn down the dehumidification system due to the reduced evaporation.

“For pool managers who are in control of expenditure where the pool itself has limited controls, using Heatsavr may feel like a leap of faith as the energy savings may not be easily extracted,” says Peter Marshall of Brenntag UK. The product is odourless, tasteless and completely invisible, tempting pool managers to wonder if it is working at all.

“But pool managers should have confidence in these findings and recognise that whilst invisible, Heatsavr continues to work throughout the day and night, saving energy and enabling them to focus on other cost saving initiatives within their site.”

Peter adds: “In providing customers with the independent analysis that they have been seeking, we hope to be able to deliver energy saving benefits and ultimately, peace of mind, to a greater number of commercial operators across the UK.”

Brenntag UK
Tel. 0113 3879200
www.heatsavr.co.uk

Destructive Winter Storms

Posted on March 7, 2014
Destructive Winter Storms

Carmathen Bay Holiday Village in South Wales was battered by storm and flood. Pic: Rebecca Evans AM.

Destructive Winter Storms

With Wales and the South West hardest hit, holiday parks have been left counting the cost of the wettest winter since records began.

According to the British Holiday and Home Parks Association (BH & HPA), hundreds of its 2,000-plus park members suffered damage during the month-long onslaught from the weather. Few sites escaped completely unscathed from the violent storms in addition to sea and river flooding.

Among those affected, 70 static chalets were flooded at the Carmarthen Bay Holiday Village in South Wales, and 20 residents were rescued from Bablockhythe caravan site in Oxfordshire, following the River Thames bursting its banks in February.

However, thanks to the fast action taken by many holiday parks and their insurers following the destructive storms of winter, it’s likely to be business as usual for the majority of the industry this spring. “It is a credit to the prescience and resilience of the industry that preparations for the winter months protected so many park assets,” said a spokesperson for the BH & HPA said.

“Where there was damage, many were able to stage a very rapid recovery from the weather’s attack.” Repair and restoration work was often underway within days of parks being hit, helped by insurance loss adjusters who frequently attended within hours of receiving emergency calls.

The spokesperson added: “The total bill for putting the UK parks industry back together after the freak storms has not yet been assessed, but will certainly run to millions of pounds. However, the cost is unlikely to impact on what families will pay this year or in the future for their holidays, or for buying a holiday home.”