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THE TEAM

Our team is quite unusual for a tourism/travel company. None of us has worked in this field before. The core team now consists of three industrial engineers, a business economist and a software developer from the OWL region. In addition, there are currently two working students who have just joined the team.

We started VanSite because we ourselves are enthusiastic campers and in the past were constantly desperate in our search for a suitable parking space. We simply wanted to create a good solution to be able to camp stress-free close to nature. We have wondered why there is Airbnb for vacation rentals and private rooms, but no one has built something in this direction for campers. Thereupon, we decided without further ado and without much advance planning to just do it ourselves.

This mentality still runs like a red thread through our team culture. We don’t plan everything to the smallest detail. We are much more interested in keeping everything as simple as possible and not losing sight of the essentials.

We quickly realized how important clear communication and the conscious nurturing of a good team culture is. Since we worked together almost exclusively remotely from the beginning, the simple office conversations were missing. That’s why, despite the small team, we had to deal intensively with the cultivation of communication and culture consciously right from the start, because nothing could be created in the office. In the meantime, we’ve developed a good sensibility for this, which will serve us well, especially in the next few years of growth.