“I have 30 million euros in motorhomes on the locations dedicated to them.” Laurent Pradier, owner of the San Damiano establishment, in Biguglia, has just made a quick calculation. “At home, itinerant tourism represents 76 % of customers. I do not understand why it is so badly perceived in Corsica”.
On the island, there are gladly unprofitable tourists, providers of waste, generating nuisance, opening up a land dispossession when external groups buy existing structures.
This bad reputationLaurent Pradier does not explain it. In the United States, where he stayed a month in September 2024, “lhe motorhome is a full lifestyle, a real windfall “, Does he chant.
A vision that Ange-Pierre Vivoni, the mayor of Sisco, does not share standing against a typology of vacationers, according to him,, many inconveniences. In corollary, he deplores, a “Too vague legislation in the face of a phenomenon that continues to grow”.
“I had to adjust the case of a couple on which we had pulled the chevrotine”
For the time being, even if recent European guidelines are trying to tighten the rules, the wild camping can be freely practiced in a legal framework set by a 2015 decree of the town planning code. On condition, in particular, that it does not affect health, public tranquility, security, natural or urban landscapes, the conservation of environments.
It is, on the other hand, prohibited, on sea shores, in registered or classified sites, roads and public routes, as well as in a perimeter of 500 meters around remarkable heritage places and historic monuments. The local urban plan (PLU) can also proscribe it.
