[Tagging] Camps

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

On Wed May 6 00:08:17 2015 GMT+0100, David Bannon wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:44 +0000, Jerry Clough - OSM wrote:
> > 
> >  It seems to me that the obvious generalisation, which would cover
> > camps organised for profit and by non-profits would be
> > leisure=vacation_camp. 
> 
> I don't think 'vacation' or 'leisure' are good terms at all. A lot of
> people use the camp grounds we are talking about who are not on
> vacation, retirees, itinerant workers, travellers.  These grounds are
> 'mostly' open throughout the year in my part of the world.
> 
> tourism= means people are there because they want to be and I think that
> excludes refugee and military camps. Scout camps a bit grey ....
It also excludes a lot of hotels :)

> Maybe the key is that people don't stay there indefinitely ?
> 
> > ... very specific British connotations associated with 
> >  holiday_camp. 
> 
> Yes, I would consider the british holiday camps would be better called
> resorts (?). The permanent building being the clue. 
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A resort is usually a town whos primary purpose is tourism. A resort is not operated by a single company,  and access is not restricted.  

 
> > 
> > In general I would use any derivative of "resort" : it is a word which
> > has far too many meanings. 
> 
> Did you mean to say "avoid the use of " there ?
> 
> So, in summary, why are we discussing abandoning or supplementing
> tourism=camp_site ?
> 
> David
> 
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