Holiday Park/Campsite Visitor Survey

Completed it yesterday, but there is no exact definition of a camp site, and as we use CLs/CSs for the vast majority of our stays I had a problem trying to provide the answers that they were looking for.

Some of the questions are intrusive and personal. However you don't have to answer them.

Or have to answer them with factually correct data - which screws up the results of the survey.

I didn't find anything remotely intrusive or personal, but I did find it rather expectant in detail. I am fastidious, almost to the point of anality, about recording my expenditure. This meant, I could answer the questions on the different categories of spending to the penny, and quickly. I suspect few could give accurate answers to that. One hopes, however, despite the cynicism above, they'd give their best estimates. I bet lots of people gave up when they saw the level of detail being sought. I often wonder how many people actually complete surveys of this sort of depth. It's surely bound to be a skewed survey because the people that can be bothered to do them are likely to have similar traits or values - in very broad terms. 

At least it wasn't like most surveys these days where the marketeers get the customer to do their work for them by insisting on an essay to each question entitled "Why did you give this answer .............."  Even worse those with a slider that increases with the number of words and insist that you write a certain number before being allowed to get to the next question. I usually give up on those.    

I keep no records. I have no idea what I spent the last time I went away. I gave up quickly on the questionnaire.

It amazes me how many times on CT people have posted that the ordinary tourer doesn't have a voice, how the people who run the leisure industry are out of touch with the people who use it, etc etc etc. But when that very industry reaches out to the ordinary person for feedback and input they give up because it's too difficult.

The same goes with the number of posts on how the club is run, how many of those people will take the time and effort to put pen to paper and raise a question for the AGM.   

I filled out the survey as best I could. I do keep records so I was able to be factually correct in how much I spent. (I have been filling out YouGov surveys for years so no stranger) I sometimes wonder what the objective is behind these types of surveys and what they prove beyond gathering information for some sort of future Infographic?

David