Glamping is camping with comfort built in: a nicer tent, a proper mattress, better kit than a thin bag on the ground. It is still outdoors, still a tent (or something like one), but the night is meant to feel easy, even a little stylish. Travel pages and magazines use the word a lot; it has a bright, selling sound. Friends may also just say it in chat when they mean a fancy camp stay, not a tough hike. The word started in Britain around 2005 and had reached the United States by 2007. You can use it as a thing you do (We went glamping) and, in looser talk, as the style of the place. It does not mean a five-star hotel in the woods. If there is no camping left in it — no tent, no outdoor night — people are stretching the word, and some readers will argue.