Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Yosemite National Park, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Yosemite National Park, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Yosemite National Park hosted 3.7 million recreation visits in 2009. After adjusting for visitor group size and re-entries into the park, there were 896,793 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on 2008 winter and 2009 summer Visitor Services Project surveys, 37% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay within 50 miles of the park.1 Forty-one percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins, 12% inside the park and 29% outside. Eleven percent of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds, 9% inside the park and 2% outside.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , SSB , YOSE
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research