Impacts of visitor spending on the local economy: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, 2012
Cook PS. 2013. Impacts of visitor spending on the local economy: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, 2012. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NRSS/EQD/NRR—2013/658. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial hosted 133,550 recreation visits in 2012. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 37,571 visitor group trips to the park in 2012. Based on a 2012 Visitor Services Project survey conducted June 19–25, 50% of these visitor group trips were made by local residents or non-locals on day trips, not including an overnight stay within 60 miles of the park.1 Twenty-three percent of visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in a lodge, hotel, motel, cabin, B&B, etc. in the local area, and 14% were overnight camping stays in the local area. Thirteen percent of visitor group trips were overnight stays in non-paid lodging, such as private homes.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Phillip
- Date of Issue
- 2013-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , LIBO , NRSS , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research