Success
The guides have been influential in the rise in popularity of camping; for example, drawing attention to the number of overseas sites that were providing mains electricity hook-ups. Alan Rogers suggested that British caravanners and motor caravanners should take advantage of this by having their units wired to take mains electricity; in 1968 no standard British caravan was supplied with mains electricity wiring.
One measure of the guides' success is that many of the things he called for in the original guide have now become reality:
- Mains electricity connections in caravans and motor caravans
- Marked pitches of a minimum size
- Hot water freely available in the amenity blocks
- British style toilets on French campsites
- The use of trees and bushes to mark pitches
- Nn end to the practice of over-crowding of sites during the peak summer holiday times
Many of the sites - like Camping du Pavillon at Bidarte in the Pyrenees recommended by him in 1968 - are still recommended in the current guides, although all the sites have developed along the lines originally recommended by Alan Rogers.
Read more about this topic: Alan Rogers Guides
Famous quotes containing the word success:
“The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.”
—Policy statement, 1944, of the Youth League of the African National Congress. pt. 2, ch. 4, Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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why American men think that success is everything
when they know that eighty percent of them are not
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if they are not why do they not keep on being
interested in the things that interested them when
they were college men and why American men different
from English men do not get more interesting as they
get older.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)