Sen. Klobuchar receives Coleman Award

(June 8, 2012) -- U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was presented with the 2012 Sheldon Coleman Great Outdoors Award, the recreation community's most prestigious award, at a special Great Outdoors Week celebration June 6, the American Recreation Coalition announced today.

Campground Automation participates in IPv6 launch

(June 8, 2012) -- The company’s corporate and product marketing site at www.campgroundautomation.com will now be permanently available via IPv6. CAS has also kicked off testing of full IPv6 connectivity for its Sunrise cloud-based online reservation system and campground management software and is committed to bringing native IPv6 support to www.sunrisereservations.com later this summer.

Thor releases third quarter financials

(June 8, 2012) -- RV sales in the quarter ended April 30 were $807,196,000, up 9 percent from $742,797,000 in the quarter last year. Towable RV sales in the quarter were $680,472,000, up 9 percent from $624,631,000 in the prior year period. Motorized RV sales in the quarter were $126,724,000, up 7 percent from $118,166,000 in the quarter last year. RV income before tax in the third quarter was $59,162,000, compared with $60,035,000 in the quarter last year.

Space sales at Hershey Show exceeds 2011 pace

(June 7, 2012) -- "Forty-four manufacturers and 148 booth exhibitors are currently registered for the show and have exceeded the space sales of the entire 2011 show by more than 5.3 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively," said Lennington. "We are less than 30 days away from the show space drawing and we have already surpassed last year’s show numbers. There are a very limited number of spaces remaining and we couldn’t be more excited. This will definitely be a sold out show -- all this after expanding the footprint by 32,948 square feet."

Specialized training makes RV dealers profitable

Since its beginning, Sobel & Associates has helped more than 400 dealers and 600,000 salespeople throughout the United States and Canada. The company’s free online training has thousands of subscribers, and hundreds of people look at it on a daily basis. So what has been the driving force behind Sobel's success? “People do business with us because we make our clients money. Without our clients, we don’t exist,” he explained.

New York campgrounds embrace geocaching

(June 7, 2012) -- “Our goal with geocaching is to bring visitors into CONY facilities to enjoy the combination of electronics and outdoors in such a way that their camping experience will be further enhanced.” said Bennett. “The geocaching locations scattered across New York State also provide a great way for people to plan interesting road trips around their geocaching adventures.”