Post by High Priestess on Aug 6, 2016 14:49:46 GMT
See the article:
www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2016/08/05/former-nyse-exec-starts-tentrr-like-airbnb-for.html
I find this hilarious::
When New Yorker Michael D’Agostino and his wife headed out of town to do some camping, he was nostalgic for childhood camping trips, longing for the peace, quiet, and sense of spaciousness that eludes residents in this city of more than 8 million people.
It was not to be: the couple inadvertently pitched a tent next to a gathering of witches who were apparently also drawn to the same national forest campground in New Jersey.
Tentrr is a startup that erects campsites on private property, allowing campers to get some space, and property owners to make some extra money.
“There were 40 Wiccans having a convention, drinking mead, and one of them ran by claiming she’d seen a UFO,” D’Agostino said. “It was like camping in Times Square. That led me to say, ‘something could change here.’ “
So D’Agostino, who had previously had been a managing director in charge of IPOs for New York Stock Exchange and an investment banker at Bear Stearns, decided to start Tentrr, sort of an Airbnb for campers. It takes advantage of the sharing economy and the digital convenience of booking online, but also strives to bring back the old-fashioned charm of sleeping outdoors in a picturesque setting — along with some modern conveniences.
“This is a legacy industry that’s massive and hasn’t really changed since the Civil War,” said D’Agostino. “It made no sense to take people living on top of each other in the city, and then taking them to the country to do the same thing.”
So far, Tentrr has erected about 50 campsites on the private properties of homeowners who sign up to rent a portion of their land for that purpose, and there are about 100 more in the pipeline as the company expands beyond areas just outside New York such as the Catskills and into new states including New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The next planned location is in the Pacific Northwest.
Before “CampKeepers” can be considered for inclusion, a few rules of thumb must be met. They must own about 10 acres or more of land, it should be “reasonably accessible,” and it has to be possible for campers to drive up to the campsite or to park within a reasonable distance.
The new tent/camping Airbnb-like listing site is here: www.tentrr.com/
I actually think D'Agostino has a great point. Whether it's a group of witches making noise next to you, or boy scouts, surfers, a family in an RV whose idea of "getting away into nature" includes a 30 inch TV and a stereo, or any other noisy neighbors -- it's just altogether unpleasant to have to camp next to noisy neighbors. Which is why when I go camping I don't like staying in campgrounds, but prefer finding isolated areas to camp. So if some people can offer such quietude to others, it seems to me there would be a real need for it!
www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2016/08/05/former-nyse-exec-starts-tentrr-like-airbnb-for.html
I find this hilarious::
When New Yorker Michael D’Agostino and his wife headed out of town to do some camping, he was nostalgic for childhood camping trips, longing for the peace, quiet, and sense of spaciousness that eludes residents in this city of more than 8 million people.
It was not to be: the couple inadvertently pitched a tent next to a gathering of witches who were apparently also drawn to the same national forest campground in New Jersey.
Tentrr is a startup that erects campsites on private property, allowing campers to get some space, and property owners to make some extra money.
“There were 40 Wiccans having a convention, drinking mead, and one of them ran by claiming she’d seen a UFO,” D’Agostino said. “It was like camping in Times Square. That led me to say, ‘something could change here.’ “
So D’Agostino, who had previously had been a managing director in charge of IPOs for New York Stock Exchange and an investment banker at Bear Stearns, decided to start Tentrr, sort of an Airbnb for campers. It takes advantage of the sharing economy and the digital convenience of booking online, but also strives to bring back the old-fashioned charm of sleeping outdoors in a picturesque setting — along with some modern conveniences.
“This is a legacy industry that’s massive and hasn’t really changed since the Civil War,” said D’Agostino. “It made no sense to take people living on top of each other in the city, and then taking them to the country to do the same thing.”
So far, Tentrr has erected about 50 campsites on the private properties of homeowners who sign up to rent a portion of their land for that purpose, and there are about 100 more in the pipeline as the company expands beyond areas just outside New York such as the Catskills and into new states including New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The next planned location is in the Pacific Northwest.
Before “CampKeepers” can be considered for inclusion, a few rules of thumb must be met. They must own about 10 acres or more of land, it should be “reasonably accessible,” and it has to be possible for campers to drive up to the campsite or to park within a reasonable distance.
The new tent/camping Airbnb-like listing site is here: www.tentrr.com/
I actually think D'Agostino has a great point. Whether it's a group of witches making noise next to you, or boy scouts, surfers, a family in an RV whose idea of "getting away into nature" includes a 30 inch TV and a stereo, or any other noisy neighbors -- it's just altogether unpleasant to have to camp next to noisy neighbors. Which is why when I go camping I don't like staying in campgrounds, but prefer finding isolated areas to camp. So if some people can offer such quietude to others, it seems to me there would be a real need for it!