“…The phenomenon of recreational camping -in its various manifestations -is observed throughout the world, albeit is viewed as particularly popular in the tourism economies of North America (Stephens et al, 1989;Janiskee, 1990;Timothy & Teye, 2009;Brooker & Joppe, 2014;Young, 2017), Australia (Caldicott et al, 2014) and New Zealand (Collins & Kearns, 2010;Collins et al, 2018). Its popularity is further recorded in several countries of Europe including Croatia (Grzinic et al, 2010;Cerovič, 2014), Denmark (Mikkelsen & Blichfeldt, 2015), Germany (Doğantan & Emir, 2019), Spain (Garcia-Pozo et al, 2011;Salo et al, 2020), Turkey (Doğantan et al, 2017) and United Kingdom (Rees Pryce, 1967;Prentice & Witt, 1991;Lashley, 2015).…”