As COVID-19 restrictions start to loosen and campgrounds are able to open, RV dealerships are keeping busy.

Provincial parks began taking reservations at the beginning of May and opened up to campers on June 1.

Michelle Ferguson, general manager of Moose Jaw RV and Marine, says, with all of the uncertainty around COVID-19, a lot of people are sticking closer to home.

“It’s really exciting and interesting with everyone wondering what they are going to do with travelling or not travelling, I feel lots of people are thinking let’s just stay local, let’s just keep camping, let’s just start camping, get out there and wee what we have locally,” she said.

During the pandemic, the dealerships were only allowed to have their service department open because there are people who live in their RVs year-round.

Now that things have opened up, people are looking to buy RVs and campers again.

“We have been absolutely swamped back-to-back, all-hands-on-deck, out showing campers and moving campers,” Ferguson said.

One of the advantages of buying an RV and camper now is the exchange rate since most campers are built in Indiana and imported to Canada.

“One interesting thing right now is with the way the Canadian Dollar is anything on any dealer’s lot is a cheaper, more desirable product than product coming in that’s going to be a more expensive exchange rate,” Ferguson added.

She said generally the exchange rate is around $1.28 to $1.32, but right now they are seeing exchange rates at $1.42. This means a savings of 10 cents on every dollar.