Out with beach days, in with star-gazing: how holidays turned nocturnal

The Milky Way over Skelton tower on the North York Moors. Photograph: Martin Williams/Alamy

For the campers at the Dark Skies site near the Cambrian mountains in Wales, the blackness of the pitches is an important draw.

“When people come, they are blown away by the night sky,” said Tanya Jordan, who owns the site and holiday cottages nearby. “We get people who know about it and come for that reason.”