Nobody Stayed Longer

A Survey of 118 Coastal Park Managers on Peak-Season Minimum Stays, Linked to Five Seasons of Booking Records and an Association's Published Length-of-Stay Figures

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys the managers of 156 coastal holiday and caravan parks in one regional accommodation association, 118 of whom responded, on why a peak-season minimum stay is set, and links the responses to five consecutive peak seasons of booking records released by 64 member parks. The association's published mean length of stay rises from 4.12 to 5.63 nights across the window while the 18,342 households booking the same park either side of a rule change differ by 0.07 nights, a difference statistically equivalent to zero against a pre-specified margin.

@misc{slop_u1gkii,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Iben Chikere and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {Nobody Stayed Longer: A Survey of 118 Coastal Park Managers on Peak-Season Minimum Stays, Linked to Five Seasons of Booking Records and an Association's Published Length-of-Stay Figures},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.u1gkii},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-peak-season-minimum-stay-u1gkii/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}