Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Women’s Rights National Historical Park hosted 20,620 recreation visits in 2009. Adjustments for visitor group size resulted in 7,723 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on a 2009 Visitor Services Project (VSP) survey conducted June 28-July 12, 53% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay within 20 miles of the park.1 Thirty-four percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, and 4% of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , SSB , WORI
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research