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Canvas Holidays is a company which offers camping holidays across Europe. Founded 50 years ago by the Cuthbert family, it was the pioneer in the sited tent market. Canvas Holidays - which has its headquarters in Dunfermline, Scotland - has campsites in a variety of countries in Europe, including France, Italy, Croatia and Spain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.seasonworkers.com/profile/canvas-holidays-96.aspx )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://worksmart.org.uk/company/company.php?id=00991430 )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.careerintravel.co.uk/tour-operators-canvas-Holidays.htm )〕 == Background == In 1964, Jim Cuthbert and his wife Margaret Cuthbert decided to set up a camping holiday company. The idea came to them after being on a family holiday themselves, where they had witnessed many families cramming their cars full of camping equipment. It was then that Jim Cuthbert thought it would be more convenient to provide campsites which already had the equipment ready for use, and so Canvas was born. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2079975.ece )〕 In 1967, four more campsites were added and Jim Cuthbert was awarded a ''Daily Telegraph'' travel award for most innovative holiday idea. Further improvements to the Canvas campsites followed, with a site being added in Italy in 1968 and electric lights being introduced in 1969. By the 1970s, route maps had been added to travel packs, fully sprung beds replaced air mattresses and crockery was introduced. In the 1970s, another British camping holiday company – Eurocamp – was established, providing competition for Canvas. The following decade was a time of further improvements to Canvas' campsites, with the first Spanish campsite being added in 1981. Throughout the remainder of the 1980s, the first mobile homes were introduced, as was the Hoopi's Club programme for children. The founder of the company, Jim Cuthbert, was also awarded the Soleil d'Or from the French Government in 1985 for his contribution to the travel industry. Over the recent decades, Canvas Holidays continued to progress with the times, introducing a new computerized bookings system in 1994, as well as establishing a new range of tents – the ‘Mark IV Tent’ and the ‘Balmoral’. Updated mobile homes – equipped with dishwashers and CD players – were introduced as part of the ‘Millennium’ range in 2003, and air conditioning was added to mobile homes in Italy and the South of France in 2004. Canvas also improved the family friendly aspect of their company, introducing free travel for under 18s in 1996, a Toddler Club for under 4s in 2000 and the ‘FamilyExtra’ programme in 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canvas Holidays」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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