Business Is Booming For The RV Industry

More people than ever before have been taking to the road and purchasing RVs.

“It’s increased significantly over the past 40 years, and the pandemic seemed to supercharged that,” said Monika Geraci, the RV Industry Association’s Spokesperson.

Monika Geraci told 16 News Now that sales in 2021 were the highest in the industry’s history.

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In the RVIA’s report, 2021 sales showed a 39.5% increase in sales from 2020, and a 19% increase in sales over the industry’s previous high of 500,000 RVs sold in 2017.

Commending the industry’s manufacturers and suppliers, Geraci told 16 News Now that this quick response to the sudden, high demand, shows just how innovative the RV Industry can be.

“The manufacturers and suppliers, a lot of them there in Elkhart, faced the same supply chain and work force issues that pretty much all other industries faced, but the manufacturers and suppliers of the RV industry were able to overcome those challenges and deliver this really, really record breaking year,” Geraci said.

According to RVIA, a top reason for the boost in RV purchases was a ‘rediscovery of the great outdoors,’ with Geraci adding that spending twenty minutes outside each day, has a significant, positive impact on physical and mental health.

View the full article from 16 News Now WNDU here.