UK Glamping Statistics 2026 | Trips, Sites and Hot Tubs

The figures to know

8.5 million camping, caravan and glamping trips in Great Britain in 2025, down 18% in a year. (Welsh Government, official statistics)
4,690 glamping units and pods on UK holiday parks and campsites in 2023, about 1% of all pitches. (UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, our calculation)
2,770 camping ground businesses in the UK in March 2026. (Office for National Statistics, official statistics)
£564 for an average week of glamping, on Sykes’ booking data. (Sykes, company data)
55% of bookings at Awaze, the owner of Hoseasons, were for places with a hot tub. (Awaze, company data)
67% of UK adults had never been glamping when Sykes asked in 2024. (Sykes, survey)

Read this before you quote anything

First, the official tourism surveys don’t separate glamping from camping and caravans. Where a figure covers all three, we say so.

Second, the booking companies’ figures are their own. They describe one company’s bookings, we have no way of checking them, and most of the hot tub numbers are about cottages and lodges as much as pods.

Third, every figure carries a label. Official statistics come from a government body or a national tourist board. Company data is a firm reporting on its own bookings. A survey is what people told a pollster. Our calculation is arithmetic we did on published numbers, with the working shown.

How many glamping trips people take

The Great Britain Tourism Survey is the official measure of the trips British residents take at home. It puts glamping in one group with camping and caravans, so these are figures for all three.

8.5 million overnight trips in Great Britain in 2025 used camping, a caravan or glamping as the main place to stay. That was down 18% from 10.41 million in 2024. The figures are provisional. (Welsh Government, official statistics)
About 8% of all overnight trips in Great Britain in 2025 were camping, caravan or glamping trips, against about 10% the year before. That’s 8.50 million of 103.00 million trips, and 10.41 million of 105.61 million. (Welsh Government, our calculation)
1.24 million trips in Wales in 2025 used camping, a caravan or glamping. That’s 16% of all overnight trips there, and 9% fewer than the 1.36 million in 2024. (Welsh Government, official statistics)
0.9 million trips in Scotland in 2025 were caravan, camping or glamping stays, up 3% on 2024. They accounted for 3.3 million nights and £266 million of spending. (VisitScotland, official statistics)
3.6 nights was the average caravan, camping or glamping stay in Scotland, at £81 a night and £287 a stay. Serviced accommodation such as hotels averaged £196 a night. (VisitScotland, official statistics)

Our view

The 18% fall needs care. On holiday parks and campsites, glamping units are about 1% of the pitches, so this figure mostly follows tents and caravans. It says the whole outdoor category had a poor 2025. It can’t say whether glamping on its own went up or down.

How many places offer glamping

Three sources come close, and none of them is a count of glamping sites.

3,310 and 1,380 are the numbers of glamping units and pods on the UK’s 6,169 holiday parks and campsites in 2023. Glamping units here means yurts, wigwams and similar. (UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, trade body estimate)
About 1% of the 439,828 pitches on those sites were glamping units or pods. That’s 4,690 in all. (UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, our calculation)
2,765 and 1,112 of those glamping units and pods were in England. Scotland had 287 and 153, Wales 237 and 98, and Northern Ireland 21 and 17. (UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, trade body estimate)
£214 million of visitor spending came from those glamping units and pods in the report’s model, £151 million and £63 million. Parks and campsites as a whole generated £12.2 billion. (UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, trade body estimate)
2,622 short term let licences in Scotland were for “unconventional dwellings” at 31 December 2025, which is 8% of the 32,317 in operation. The group includes yurts and camping pods, along with caravans outside licensed caravan sites. (Scottish Government, official statistics)
2,770 businesses in the UK had camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks or trailer parks as their main activity in March 2026, up from 2,700 a year earlier. (Office for National Statistics, official statistics)
1,885 of those businesses were in England, 530 in Wales, 295 in Scotland and 55 in Northern Ireland. The figures are rounded individually, so they don’t add up exactly. (Office for National Statistics, official statistics)
16.7 per 100,000 people is the rate in Wales, against 5.3 in Scotland, 3.2 in England and 2.9 in Northern Ireland. Wales has about five times as many camping ground businesses for its population as England. We divided the business counts by the mid 2025 population estimates. (Office for National Statistics, our calculation)

Our view

Treat all of these as a floor. The trade body says its list doesn’t include every site. The official count only covers businesses registered for VAT or PAYE and sorts each one by its main activity, so a few pods on a working farm are unlikely to show up as a camping business at all. In Scotland, one licence can cover several pods.

Farms that take paying guests

Defra’s Farm Business Survey tracks how many farms in England earn money from visitors. It covers commercial farms only, and it counts all tourist accommodation and catering together, so pods are only part of it.

3,700 farm businesses in England offered tourist accommodation or catering in 2024/25. That’s 7% of the 49,300 farms the survey covers. (Defra, official statistics)
£8,700 was the average income those farms made from it over the year. (Defra, official statistics)
72% of farm businesses in England had some sideline beyond farming in 2024/25. Letting out buildings was the most common, at 50%. (Defra, official statistics)
3,300 to 3,800 is the range the number of farms with tourist accommodation or catering has stayed within since 2015/16, through more than one change to how the survey is run. (Defra, official statistics)

What it costs and who goes

Sykes Holiday Cottages published the fullest set of glamping figures we found, in its 2024 report. The price and the destinations come from its bookings. The rest comes from a OnePoll survey of 2,000 UK adults in April 2024.

£564 was the average cost of a week’s glamping. (Sykes, company data)
67% of UK adults had never been glamping. (Sykes, survey)
63% of 18 to 24 year olds had been glamping, against 13% of people over 55. (Sykes, survey)
36% said the different experience was what drew them to it. The cosiness and getting closer to nature each scored 32%. (Sykes, survey)
Cumbria and the Lake District topped Sykes’ glamping bookings, followed by Mid Wales, North Wales, the Heart of England and Cornwall. We cover the Lake District, North Wales and Cornwall on this site. (Sykes, company data)

Is glamping growing?

On one of the biggest booking sites, yes. Sykes has reported a rise in each of the last three years, though it groups the property types a little differently each time.

67% was the rise in Sykes’ glamping bookings in 2023. (Sykes, company data)
16% was the rise in its bookings for yurts, lodges and shepherd’s huts in 2024. (Sykes, company data)
10% was the rise in its bookings for huts, pods and yurts in 2025. (Sykes, company data)
Second fastest growing type of property available with Sykes in 2025 was glamping accommodation, behind unusual properties such as castles and lighthouses. (Sykes, company data)

Our view

Set those beside the official fall in camping, caravan and glamping trips and they look like a contradiction. They aren’t one. A company’s bookings can grow while the wider category shrinks, and Sykes has been adding glamping properties. Our reading is that glamping is growing where Sykes can see it. Nobody has measured whether it’s growing overall.

How much difference a hot tub makes

This is where the booking companies have most to say. Awaze owns Hoseasons and cottages.com.

55% of Awaze’s bookings were for properties with a hot tub when it reported in November 2025, up from under 40% before the pandemic. The release is about UK holiday rentals and doesn’t give the period. (Awaze, company data)
51% higher average weekly rates were achieved by Awaze properties with a hot tub than by those without, along with 45% stronger occupancy. (Awaze, company data)
40% more a year is what a Sykes property with a hot tub can earn on average, according to its 2026 report for owners. (Sykes, company data)
First among the most searched for features on the Sykes website was a hot tub, ahead of wifi and a pub nearby, in its 2024 report for owners. (Sykes, company data)
Almost all 4,000 hot tub lets on Hoseasons were booked over the Easter weekend in 2026. (Awaze, company data)
178% was the year on year rise in March 2026 bookings for hot tub properties at cottages.com in the week before Easter. Hoseasons was up 25%. (Awaze, company data)
104% was how far Sykes’ bookings for properties with hot tubs stood above 2022 in its 2023 report. They were 167% above 2019. (Sykes, company data)

Our view

These figures cover cottages and lodges as well as pods. We found nobody publishing the same numbers for glamping alone. Our reading is that they explain why so many pods now come with a tub. Owners who add one fill more weeks and charge more for them.

Hot tub glamping by region

Nobody we found publishes a count of glamping stays with a hot tub. The nearest thing is the booking sites’ own filtered pages. We read four of them, region by region, and give a region a page on this site only when one booking site shows at least 15 stays there.

The counts we publish are in the table on our home page, each with the date we read it.

What this means if you’re booking

Book early if the tub matters. Almost every hot tub let on Hoseasons was taken over Easter 2026.
Expect to pay for it. Hot tub properties at Awaze charge about half as much again a week as those without.
Use £564 a week as a rough yardstick, and remember it dates from 2024.
Look to Wales and Cumbria for choice. Both lead Sykes’ glamping bookings, and Wales has far more camping businesses for its population than any other part of the UK.
Read the listing for the word private. Our guide explains how to tell a private hot tub from a shared one.
Check what you’d lose by cancelling. We’ve set the four main booking sites’ cancellation policies side by side.

Using these figures

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Figures from VisitScotland, the UK Caravan and Camping Alliance, Sykes and Awaze belong to those organisations. We quote single figures from each, with a credit and a link to the original.

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Published 4 October 2026. Spotted a mistake or a newer figure? Tell us.