Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Grand Teton National Park, 2008
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Grand Teton National Park, 2008. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Grand Teton National Park hosted 2.5 million recreation visits in 2008. After adjusting for visitor group size and re-entries into the park, there were 678,578 visitor group trips to the park in 2008. Based on a 2008 Visitor Services Project survey, 25% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay in the surrounding local region.1 Forty-three percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins, 5% inside the park, and 38% outside the park. Fifteen percent of visitor group trips involved camping overnight, 5% inside the park and 10% outside.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , GRTE , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research