2003
DOI: 10.21236/ada420574
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Recreation Visitor Spending Profiles and Economic Benefit to Corps of Engineers Projects

Abstract: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CE) is the largest federal provider of water-based recreation. It manages over 450 water resource development projects throughout the United States. These lake and river projects provide significant recreation opportunities and benefits to visitors and local residents, accommodating over 385 million person visits in 1999.The purposes of this research are to develop visitor spending profiles and to estimate local and national economic effects of spending by visitors to CE proje… Show more

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“…3 Therefore, the impact analysis includes only the spending of new visitors that stay overnight in a hotel, motel, etc, or on campgrounds (more on each category follows in the next section). Past ARCE studies have focused on measuring the economic contributions of ARCE water recreation projects rather than the economic impacts of increasing visitor spending (Chang et al, 2003). The terms 'visitors', 'visits' and 'person-trips' are interchangeable throughout the remainder of this report but, in the impact analysis, these terms refer to visitors from outside the area.…”
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“…3 Therefore, the impact analysis includes only the spending of new visitors that stay overnight in a hotel, motel, etc, or on campgrounds (more on each category follows in the next section). Past ARCE studies have focused on measuring the economic contributions of ARCE water recreation projects rather than the economic impacts of increasing visitor spending (Chang et al, 2003). The terms 'visitors', 'visits' and 'person-trips' are interchangeable throughout the remainder of this report but, in the impact analysis, these terms refer to visitors from outside the area.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study uses two data components from ARCE: (a) visitation data for Beaver Lake; and (b) spending profiles for six segments of visitors (Chang et al, 2003). 4 To estimate the spending profiles and the visitation data, ARCE conducted surveys in 1999 and 2000 at 16 ARCE projects and used data from the Natural Resource Management System (NRMS) database.…”
Section: Us Army Corps Of Engineers (Arce) Datamentioning
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