Center Parcs has been operating in the UK since 1987 but it started with a holiday village in the Netherlands in the late 1960s.
Its first venture in the UK was at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire followed, in 1989, by Elveden Forest in Suffolk.
It now has six sites in total at Longleat Forest in Wiltshire, Whinfell Forest in Cumbria, Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire and its first Irish site – Longford Forest – in County Longford.
They attract more than two million visitors every year and are particularly popular with families – offering a range of on-site activities and facilities.
Last year Center Parcs announced it had dropped plans for a new village at Oldhouse Warren, West Sussex, after concluding it was not suitable for the project.
