Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, 2003
Stynes DJ and Sun Y. 2005. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, 2003. National Park Service, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI
The purpose of this study is to document the local economic impacts of visitors to Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park (CHOH) in 2003. The local region is defined to encompass a half-hour drive of the park. Economic impacts are measured as the direct and secondary sales, income, jobs and value added in the region resulting from spending by park visitors. The economic estimates are produced using the Money Generation Model version 2 (MGM2) (Stynes and Propst, 2000).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Stynes, Daniel; Sun, Ya-Yen
- Date of Issue
- 2005-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Michigan State University
- Units
- CHOH , EQD , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research