Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial hosted 154,457 recreation visits in 2009. After adjusting for visitor group size and re-entries into the park, there were 34,292 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on a 2009 Visitor Services Project survey conducted June 24-30, 41% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay on South Bass Island or within 10 miles of Port Clinton.1 Thirty-nine percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, and 6% of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , PEVI , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research