1 Visitors staying with friends and relatives or an owned
seasonal home in the area are treated as non-local day visitors
2 Questionnaires were distributed proportionally at Annie
Springs Entrance (52%) and North Entrance (48%).
3 A party night is a travel group staying one
night in the area. The travel group is usually all individuals in the same
vehicle or staying in the same room or campsite. For day trips, estimates are in
party days.
4 Stays of more than 7 days or groups of more
than 8 people were omitted in computing these averages.
5 Due to a small number of backcountry campers sampled in the
survey (n=3), the MGM2 default spending profile is used.
6 Spending does not include airfares.
7 MGM2 generic rural area multipliers are applied in calculating
these values.
8 For example, if a visitor buys $50 dollars worth of clothing
at a local store, the store receives the retail margin (assume $20 dollars), the
wholesaler or shipper (if local) may receive $5 dollars, and the remaining
producer price of the clothing ($25 dollars) leaks immediately outside the local
economy, unless the clothing is manufactured in the local region.
9 The nightly room fee was reduced by 5%, around $5 dollars. 10
Sampling errors depend on the number of cases sampled and the variation in the
study population. 11 Including four spending outliers will increase the average
by 13%. Treating all cases with missing values (n=49) as zero’s decreases the
average spending by 11%.
