If you can't be bothered with all that stuff there is a quick resume of important dates (important to us anyway) below
Dates of interest
February 2002 joined MSN Campinglife
October 2002 MSN Touring and Tenting
December 2002 Started research and building
February 2003 purchased domain names etc
February-March Uploaded website and forums
March 2003 Launched Touring and Tenting .com
March 2003 added chat room
April 2003 Gallery added
April 2003 Historical specialist campsite directory added
April 2003 European campsite directory added
June 2003 Insurance directory added
June 2003 Online Megastore opened
July 2003 Rally directory added
July 2003 Motime blogger (T & T Times) added
September 2003 Forum shop added
January 2004 changed forum layout and 3rd upgrade.
September 2004 journalists trip to Lake Trasimeno
November 2004 attended Camping Cheque congress
June 2005 opened online shop
September 2005 invited to the National Feast of Lanterns by the CCC
December 2005 started designing the new management system
January 2006 Launched the ?nights away? thread on the forums
March 2006 changed to our UK based hosts and re-launched
June 2006 First rally abroad ? France
September 2006 Purchased the .eu .org etc domain names
November 2006 Caravan and camping search engine launched
Launched the new caravanning and camping purchases thread to monitor new purchases by members
January 2007 Relaunched the new nights away thread now sponsored by Towsure
2007 Issued our new Constitution
Gained both camping and caravanning exemption certificated
New Year 2007 we were both honored to be asked to be witnesses for a between 2 of our members
April 2008 started looking for a new host server for Touring and Tenting as we had again outgrown it
June 2008 Moved to our new server
June/July 2008 Launched T&T Crowd-The caravanning and camping community
So what are the plans for the future?
Touring and Tenting currently has a large specialist directory of campsites and this will continue to grow with the development of a database to compliment it.
We will continue to develop and expand our community resources, but a lot of that is up to T&T members and visitors, we have open minds and listen to suggestions and the more contributions the more the website grows.
We will continue to expand our rally programmes and encourage the growth of our LMU's
We will strive to continue to grow in whatever direction the market conditions and members move us.