Parkdean Resorts has invested more than £800,000 across its 4 Isle of Wight parks to enhance accommodation as it gets ready for the peak Summer season. Thorness Bay, Nodes Point, Landguard and Lower Hyde welcomed over 130,000 holidaymakers last year alone, marking one of Parkdean Resorts’ busiest years on record. This has prompted an investment in the Island’s offering with 180 caravans refurbished and 2 new caravans added. It’s part of a wider £34million investment in parks across the country., Parkdean Resorts employs almost 400 people in peak season on the Isle of Wight and is looking for staff for the 2024 season. For more information see https://jobs.parkdeanresorts.co.uk. Steve Richards, CEO of Parkdean Resorts, says:
“We’re always looking to invest in the guest experience at our parks. 59% of our customers rebook with us, and continuing to enhance our parks will help bring people back to the Isle of Wight year after year. We create rewarding jobs in the community which can turn into life-long careers in hospitality, and our staff engagement score of 83%, which is well above the sector average, shows our teams are happy. “2024 promises to be another busy year, so there’s no better time to join our brilliant team who do so much to help our guests make lasting memories with their families.”
Please don’t expand any more in Shanklin! So many stay empty all year and our landscape is being eaten up caravans. Perhaps use your extra profit in homes for homeless?
Why an earth would they want to use their profits on homes for the homeless? The vast majority get every chance to help them selfs but don’t.
Think of all those extortionate Ferry fares paid to visit the island.
Cheaper to fly to Tenerife
I do feel for the Parks not just on the Island but in the rest of the UK. 130,000 was a drop in the ocean compared to the number of visitors that came to the Island in the early/mid eighties when i was in the game in Shanklin. I’ve never seen Shanklin so quiet for June! I’ve got a pic somewhere from 1985/6 taken outside the Crab for a mates birthday on June 11th the old village was packed! How things have changed.
Ye weather this year is total crap and the island is old wornout and looking a dump compared to how it used to be..no pride no money scum crackheads everywhere..
But, if you believe what we’re being told about climate etc, May was the ‘hottest on record’, apparently.
Island Tourism died after the 1980s, those were the glory days.
Nowdays majority of visitors are short stay visitors, fortnight holidays are
a thing of the past on the island.
Yes, but that’s 130,000 just going to the four Parkdean resorts, not to the Island as a whole.
Apparently, over 2 million visitors came here last year.
But, even that’s not what it used to be, obviously, in the Island’s heydays before people went abroad.