Month: June 2017

(June 30, 2017) -- Aside from eating hot dogs, shooting off fireworks and watching revolution-themed documentaries on the History Channel, AAA predicts a record number of Americans will be traveling. In fact, 44.2 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more between Friday and July 4.

America’s Great Outdoors is vital to the quality of life for most Americans and key to the nation’s $887 billion per year outdoor recreation industry. As reported by RVIA Today Express, the federal government manages nearly one-third of the nation’s surface area, making it integral to the health of an industry that supports some 7.6 million […]

Companies that operate visitor services in national parks are pushing the Trump administration to outsource more work to the private sector. The Hill reported that the hospitality industry is betting that President Trump’s desire to cut the National Park Service’s (NPS) budget, combined with the GOP’s long-standing goal of moving federal functions to the private […]

Middlebury, Ind.-based Jayco Inc. announced the appointment of Renée Jones as director of corporate marketing. According to a press release, Jones will be leading the marketing efforts and event teams for all Jayco divisions inclusive of Jayco, Entegra Coach, Starcraft RV and Highland Ridge RV.  Jones brings more than 12 years of marketing, sales and […]

 Days Corp. Chief Operating Officer Kevin Schmidt has noticed a significant increase in the exporting of RV and boats from Indiana’s Elkhart County to a wide variety of countries throughout the world. “Although exporting towable units and boats has been a portion of our business for several years, we have seen an increased demand for […]

Grand Design is the newest sponsor for the annual RV Technical, Education and Safety conference, according to a press release. As a 2-Star sponsor of the conference, Grand Design joins “Diamond Sponsor” Newmar Corp. and 4-Star Sponsor Jayco Inc. The event will be held Oct. 1-5, 2017, in Elizabethtown, KY. “We are quite pleased to […]

Gander Outdoors unveiled its new logo Thursday. Guns.com reported that CEO Marcus Lemonis shared the first image of the winning design with his Twitter followers after a six-week contest gathered thousands of crowd-sourced submissions to rebrand the former Gander Mountain logo. Early Thursday morning, Lemonis teased followers the new design would be “clean, simple and easily […]

This week’s “Rollin’ On TV’ (ROTV) episode features Jeff Johnston heading to Arizona to meet up with Pippi Peterson, a web personality who specializes in DIY projects. On this episode, Pippi installs a new Carefree3 power awning system on her classic Bounder motorhome. Also, ROTV is rolling out the second edition of the Thetford Smart […]

Can-Am RV Centre of London, Ontario, recently presented Theresa Carriere of OneRun and Joanna Meilleur of Wellspring a check for $10,000 to help in supporting regional Cancer Support Centres.‎ “Most families have been touched by Cancer so organizations like Wellspring and OneRun are vitally important to the community,” said Kirk Thomson, co-owner of Can-Am RV, in a press release. “We appreciate the […]

(June 29, 2017) -- The 2016 Industry Profile provides a detailed look at RV production and shipment statistics, including historical comparisons of shipment figures and dollar volume as well as production breakdowns by product type and shipment destination.