Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore hosted 1,165,836 recreation visits in 2009. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 264,411 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on a 2009 Visitor Services Project (VSP) survey conducted July 12-21, 43% of these visitor group trips were local residents or non-locals on day trips, not staying overnight within a one-hour drive of the park.1 Thirty-eight percent of visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, 4% of visitors groups trips were overnight stays in park campgrounds, and 9% 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 , SLBE , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research