Caravan tourism surges in Vietnam: travel 'to live' rather than 'to relax'

Nissan and Overland Expo unveiled the expedition version of the Frontier Pro-4X — Ultimate Build 2. It features a 3.8L V6, reinforced suspension, and a Tune Outdoor M1L camper. Will be auctioned this fall.

After almost 70 years, Bürstner has stopped making caravans — and nobody was particularly surprised once sales had fallen by a third. Sweden registered 62% more motorhomes and is preparing to let them drive faster. Chet Hanks moved into a retirees' trailer park in Nashville — for the country music career, not the savings. Plus a Korean workation site for 100 motorhomes, an unmanned trailer hotel on Hokkaido, and a gyrocopter pilot who landed on a highway and clipped an oncoming motorhome — all in this issue.

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A man named Son spent over a billion VND to buy a former television van and converted it into a motorhome. He takes his wife and children on trips every weekend in this vehicle.

Bürstner has halted caravan production as demand fell 13%. Poland is proposing to scrap road tolls for campervans, while Liguria counts the cost of 8,000 motorhomes descending on the region. Tom Hanks' son has swapped Hollywood for a trailer in pursuit of a music career, and a French couple has driven 100,000 km from the North Cape to Senegal — and that's not even the whole story. All this in this issue.

A family from Ho Chi Minh City embarked on a 7-day trip using a motorhome worth 1.5 billion VND (approx. $62,000). The vehicle includes sleeping areas, toilet, kitchen, and air conditioning, with battery autonomy of up to 4 days after 20 hours of charging. The total trip cost was about 10 million VND (approx. $410).