A FINE BALANCE
THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY LOVES a portmanteau. Think staycation, voluntourism, babymoon. Glamping has done arguably the best job of infiltrating the lexicon; it was even added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016. And, rumour has it, the ‘glamorous camping’ amalgam originated on the outskirts of Huskisson.
“We think that word was coined here by a Sunday Times [UK] travel writer,” says Irena Hutchings, referring to Paperbark Camp, the luxury tented accommodation she opened with her husband in 1998. “I am sure he was the guy who first wrote the word ‘glamping’. We’d never seen it before and we thought ‘what a great word!’”
There is a consensus the word was first
