Add Outdoor Hospitality to Your Growth Strategy
KOA works with experienced owners, operators, developers and investors exploring outdoor hospitality as a scalable addition to their portfolios.
- A different demand and revenue profile.
- Familiar hospitality disciplines.
- A category-specific platform.
Schedule a Strategic Conversation
THE CATEGORY
A Broader Lodging Opportunity
Outdoor hospitality can combine accommodation diversity, real estate value and multiple revenue streams within a business model experienced hospitality organizations already understand.
More Ways to Earn
Retail, recreation, food and beverage, site upgrades and other guest spending can add to lodging revenue.
Different Demand
Drive-to leisure, seasonal and extended-stay patterns may complement a traditional hospitality portfolio.
Multiple Products
RV sites, cabins, tent sites and select outdoor accommodations create a broader lodging mix.
COMPLEMENTARY STRENGTHS
Your Platform Meets Ours
Experienced hospitality organizations bring operating and investment discipline. KOA contributes the category-specific capabilities needed to navigate outdoor hospitality.
Your Hospitality Experience
Revenue Management
Pricing and demand
Asset Management
Capital and performance
Multi-Unit Operations
People and process
Development
Real estate and execution
The KOA Platform
KOA Brand
Consumer awareness
Direct Distribution
KOA.com and marketing
Operating Systems
Standards and technology
Category Expertise
Outdoor hospitality knowledge
WHY KOA
Enter With an Established Platform
Building a new hospitality category from scratch requires brand awareness, distribution, systems and specialized operating knowledge. KOA brings those capabilities together.
Brand Awareness
The world’s largest system of privately owned campgrounds and one of the most recognized names in outdoor hospitality.
KOA.com
A direct channel supporting guest demand.
Commercial Strategy
Marketing and revenue-focused support.
Brand Standards
A consistent framework for the guest experience.
Technology
Systems developed for campground operations.
Franchise Network
Operators with real category experience.
ENTRY PATHWAYS
Choose the Path That Fits Your Strategy
The right approach depends on timing, capital strategy, geographic priorities and available real estate.
1. Acquire and Convert
Acquire an existing KOA or an independent campground that may be suitable for conversion.
2. Develop
Build a new KOA in an available market, potentially through a phased development plan.
3. Leverage Real Estate
Evaluate suitable land or an existing hospitality property for outdoor-lodging development.
INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK
Evaluate KOA Against Your Own Criteria
KOA provides transparent investment analysis and historical performance insights in its Franchise Disclosure Document, empowering informed franchise decisions.
Item 5: Initial Fees
Understand the upfront fees paid to KOA.
Item 7: Estimated Initial Investment
Review the disclosed investment range and principal cost categories.
Item 19: Financial Performance Representations
Examine the historical performance information KOA is permitted to share.
A FOCUSED NEXT STEP
Where Could KOA Fit?
Explore how outdoor hospitality could complement your organization’s existing portfolio and growth strategy.
Ready to start a conversation?
KOA Franchise Sales
406-709-3536 | franchisesales@koa.net