- Landal Greenparks
Infobox_Company
company_name = Landal GreenParks
type = Tourism Company
company_
locations = 60
headquarters =Netherlands
foundation =1954
parent =Wyndham Worldwide
homepage = http://landalgreenparks.comLandal Greenparks is a European network of
holiday village s, with locations inBelgium , theNetherlands , theCzech Republic ,Austria ,Germany andSwitzerland .Background
The company owns 60 holiday villages, which contain over 10.000
bungalows . It's headquarter is inLeidschendam , in the Netherlands. Landal Greenparks has 44 holiday villages in the Netherlands, and is therefore the biggest in its kind. Of the other 16 villages, 6 containcampings , with a total of 1500 places to stay. There work about 2.500 people at the company. It is different from other companies, because it has an open character. The words quite, space, and nature play an important role. Those terms are also the main reason why people choose for it.History
The company was founded in
1954 , when the Dutch company "Nillmij" bought up the Dutch holliday village "Rabbit Hill". In the first place, it was ment to sell the houses to staff of the company, but because there didn't work many people. So people from outside the company now had the opportunity to rent abungalow , where they could celebrate their holiday. This became attractive, and more villages were bought up. The first village abroad appeared in1965 inGermany .The Nillmij company was rebranded, after several merges since
1969 , to "ENNIA". All holiday villages changed their name to ENNIA too. In1983 , ENNIA merged with "AGO", and together, they formed the new company "AEGON". Every holiday village had to be renamed, because of this merging. After several more companies merged, it was decided that the "Aegon Reacreation Holland Group" had to be sold. OnJuly 18 ,1996 , all holiday villages were sold to a group of investing people, which were investing under the name of Landal Greenparks.In
2002 , Landal Greenparks acquires Beheer & Projecten (literally: Manage & Projects) fromGroningen , including the management of 34 holiday villages of Gran Dorado, from Pierre & Vacances (the parent company ofCenter Parcs ). In the first place, Pierre & Vacances wanted to exploit the villages by themselves, but the Dutch authority didn't allow this. When the small villages from Creative Holiday Parks (taken over from Gran Dorado resorts in1997 ) were taken over by Landal Greenparks, this company became the largest of holiday villages, while Gran Dorado and Center Parcs had this title first. The company is nowadays a part of the Global Vacation Network, which is one of the business companies of the American Wyndham Worwide.Holiday Villages
For a complete overvieuw, see
Holiday Villages of Landal Greenparks External links
* [http://www.landalgreenparks.com Landal Greenparks]
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