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The California Outdoor Hospitality Association (CalOHA) celebrates its 50th anniversary in this year.
But even though the association has provided private park operators with a half century’s worth of critical legislative victories, education in best practices as well as important marketing and media outreach services, many park operators have no idea what the association does, what it has achieved or why it’s important to be a member.
CalOHA aims to answer these questions in a forthcoming book, which document’s the association’s 50-year history, its successes and the challenges that private park operators face in California today.
CalOHA President and CEO Dyana Kelley said it’s important to share the association’s history right now because many longtime park operators are selling their businesses to new owners, many of whom have no knowledge of CalOHA history or of what the association does on park operators’ behalf.
Charles Amian, who serves on the boards of directors of both CalOHA and Outdoor Hospitality Industry (OHI), said that if more new and existing park operators had a better understanding of the work CalOHA performs on their behalf, they’d likely see association membership as being critical not only to their individual business interests, but essential to strengthen the private park industry itself.
With these thoughts in mind, CalOHA in the coming months will produce a history book that documents the association’s 50-year history and its key legislative, education and marketing initiatives to support private park operators in California.
Jeff Crider, a longtime writer for RV Business and Woodall’s Campground Magazine who has worked for CalOHA for many years, has already produced a preliminary draft of the book, which documents the evolution of the private campground industry and CalOHA’s key accomplishments dating back it its early days as the California Travel Parks Association (CTPA), when it began shaping the legal and regulatory foundation of the private park industry in California.
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