Entrepreneur reveals how growing up in a holiday park helped build his £500m camping business empire

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Entrepreneur reveals how growing up in a holiday park helped build his £500m camping business empire.

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Dan Yates was born into camping.

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Raised above the clubhouse of his parents' Devon holiday park, he grew up watching a family business built one pitch at a time and by his teens, he was already building its website, skipping university lectures to do it.

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Nearly three decades later, that same instinct for spotting what the outdoor accommodation world was missing has turned into Pitchup.com: a booking platform listing 5,648 sites in 67 countries, which has handled £500million worth of bookings and 44 million bed nights since launch.Speaking exclusively to GB News about his business success, Mr Yates said: "I was brought up on a holiday park in Devon, living above the clubhouse, so it was probably inevitable I wouldn't stray far.

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The idea for Pitchup did not arrive overnight, with the seed instead being sown years ago; first at his family's business and later inside the travel industry itself.Working with local web designers on the holiday park's first website in the late 1990s, Mr Yates...

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