How are the RV parks faring?

moisheh wrote:
4x4: Have you been to the mainland? I would guess that there are just 60% of the RV spaces available as compared to say 2008. So of course it is in decline. I cross many times a year at Nogales. It is rare to see more than 4 units @ 21. From HMO to Nogales I often see zero units and at most 6. I don't know if you can access the archives with the search engine but every year RV'rs post the number of rigs in their parks. It is less every year. There are some Caravans but they are a drop in the bucket. Just go to any snowbird park in the SW and mention you are heading to Mexioo. The campers will start telling you all kinds of negative stories. Those are the potential new RV'rs but we will never see them in Mexico. If the Churches cannot sell any books it is because there are no new travelers. You are skewing the facts. In order to determine a decline one must have a starting point. I would think most of us are using 2008 and earlier. Why would we be comparing to 2011 or 2010? You remind me of an RV dealer in Canada back during the oil embargo in the 70's. He was being interviewed about RV sales. I don't know if you are familiar with that era but sales were darn near zero. Winnebago shares went down to a few dollars. This dealer said his sales had doubled. Later on we found out that the previous month he sold one unit and this month two. That is what you are doing. The market will never get to where it was. The Mexican Gov. is not interested in promoting RV tourism and the CG owners could care less. Most are old and just waiting to get big bucks for the properties. They spend zero on maintenance and less than zero on advertising. If there has been an increase it is probably less than 1%. Meaningless. You wont find any real statistics.

Moisheh

Las Jaibos in Mazatlan was over 1/2 full when i was there yesterday. More than this time last year. I have almost 20 rigs for a caravan in january, double what I had last year. This months article in Trailer Life this month may have helped raise some interest with RVing in mexico (Link), but I am getting the same story from other caravan companies as well. Amigos Rodantes also has twice what he had last year. Baja Amigos has had to add another set of wagonmasters to fill their demand. Part of it may be the recovery in the US.