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| Above, a San Fernando Valley RV rental lot. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The RV rental business is booming, as one might expect during times where people want to avoid air travel or any other kind of travel where social distancing is difficult.
ABC Action News (Tampa Bay, Florida) posted:
COVID-19 has changed the way most people travel or didn't travel last year and experts say nothing proves that more than the RV industry.
Sales and rentals are hitting new records and RV parks are booked out months in advance this summer as Americans look for ways to stay out of airplanes and hotels. Even still, it is not stopping first-time RVers from giving it a try and hitting the open road in style.
In his 16 years of renting RVs, Walt Williams has never seen customers come through the doors at Suncoast RV like they have in the past year.
"A lot of people want to try it before they buy it. We've got a lot more first-timers. People are coming in trying RVing for the first time because they don't want to fly. They don't want to stay in hotels and they really want to see the United States," says Williams.
Suncoast RV in Hillsborough County specializes in RV rentals. It's the way many folks go before they make the second largest purchase of their lives which can range from $60,000 all the way up to a $1 million.
Williams says rentals are up 180% year to year.
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