Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Homestead National Monument of America, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Homestead National Monument of America, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Homestead National Monument of America hosted 71,301 recreation visits in 2009. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 24,457 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on a 2009 Visitor Services Project (VSP) survey conducted May 25-June 27, 61% of these visitor group trips were local residents (19%) or non-locals on day trips not staying overnight within 60 miles of the park(42%).1 Twenty-one percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, and 9% of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , HOME , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research