Introduction

Economic Impacts of Recreation and Tourism	Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation
	and Resource Studies

Recreation and Tourism Activities have significant impacts on regional economies. This site summarizes economic impact concepts and methods, focusing particularly on their applications to recreation and tourism. Bulletins, training materials, analytical tools, research results, and economic impact reports that we have produced over the past ten years are made available here. We also maintain a bibliography of economic impact studies/references and links to some of the best sites on the web for students, researchers, and analysts interested in the economic impacts of recreation and tourism.
Our research team and sponsorsare listed at the end of this page.

The Site is divided into several sections that may be accessed from the Frame at left.

	What's New: (May 2008) Work in Progress: NPS Systewide impacts for 2007, Marina and Boating impact models and estimates. (May 2008) -- Model Updates : Added 2007 price indices to MITEIM and MGM2 models and converted to NAICS basis with 2001 generic multipliers. Added a "Quick Start" page to MITEIM manual. These models download as Excel files and include macros that must be enabled when opening to work properly. ( May 2007) -- Reports : Yosemite NP , NVUM 2006 Spending profiles by activity. Previous Reports : NVUM three year spending report, NPS park estimates for 2003, NPS impact reports for Capulin Volcano, Fort Stanwix, Grand Canyon, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and Arches National Parks , Heritage Area Summary Report. (Apr 2004): Visitor Survey & impact reports for Heritage Areas MotorCities, Automobile National Heritage Area (PDF), Essex NHA, Mass. (DOC), Cane River NHA, LA (DOC) . Economic Impacts of Carlsbad Caverns National Park . Final 2 year National Forest spending reports -.Spending profiles of National Forest visitors, Years 2000 and 2001, Spending Profiles, Short Report (Mar 2004) -- Economic impacts of Michigan museums: Executive Summary (8 pages), Full Report (41 pages). Added section to website covering our analysis of National Visitor Use Monitoring Study (NVUM) spending data for National Forest recreation visitors -- Choose the NVUM link in the left frame. (Jan 2004)--, The Economic Importance of Michigan’s Recreational Boating Industry, Impacts of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2001 TIA Statewide Travel Economic Estimates, Guide to economic data on WWW and links to Tourism economic data by state.
	Concepts--An introduction to economic impact concepts and methods for non-economists
	Methods-- Summary of the two principal methods for estimating economic impacts of recreation and tourism spending: Satellite Accounts and Direct Estimation usually via visitor surveys. We focus primarily on the direct survey approach, discussing methods for estimating visits, spending and multipliers.
	MITEIM-- Michigan Tourism Economic Impact Model - includes a simple on-line version and a full-featured Excel workbook for estimating economic impacts of tourism in Michigan. Model includes visitor spending for Michigan travel segments and multipliers for the state and subregions.
	MGM2-- Update of National Park Service's Money Generation Model for estimating economic impacts of park visitor spending in the local area. Similar to MITEIM model in format. Includes visitor spending data for NPS segments and multipliers for regions around NPS sites. The MGM2 version includes an extensive manual as well as a "Shortform" and "Pencil and Paper" version. Utilities for extracting multipliers from IMPLAN Pro 2.0 models and converting NPS visit data to party nights are also included.
	NVUM-- Analysis of National Forest Spending Data from National Visitor Use Monitoring Study (NVUM) . Includes spending profiles and related information for national forest recreation visitors. The SNACK model is a variation of MGM2 for National Forests.
	Reports/ Studies-- Jump here for the complete list of bulletins and reports in Acrobat PDF format.
	Michigan Studies - A comprehensive site with recreation and tourism economic impact information for the state of in Michigan. Here we include our statewide Michigan tourism spending model, spending profiles for key recreation and tourism market segments, and economic impact studies conducted in Michigan. These pages are being expanded with a grant from Travel Michigan.
	U.S. Army Corps Studies- Early development of our economic impact tools were supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CE), Waterways Experiment Station. The "MIREC" program developed for Corps is now superceded by MGM2 and MITEIM models above. CE Visitor spending profiles and reports estimating the local, state, and national economic impact of CE recreation visitors are available here.
	Tools/ Data-- Older tools from earlier MI-REC system are located here. Also price indices from BLS.
	Links-- Useful links to economic impacts web sites, bibliographies and related information.

Our Research Team and Sponsors

The MSU Research Team Our Key Research program Sponsors

Daniel Stynes, Professor
Dennis Propst, Associate Professor
Wen-Huei Chang , Research Specialist
Ya-Yen Sun, Ph.D. candidate

Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources
Michigan State University
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
        Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES)
US Department of Agriculture,
         Forest Service , Inventory and Monitoring Institute
        Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
Travel Michigan
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
National Park Service

The MSU Research Team	Our Key Research program Sponsors
Daniel Stynes, Professor Dennis Propst, Associate Professor Wen-Huei Chang , Research Specialist Ya-Yen Sun, Ph.D. candidate Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources Michigan State University	Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES) US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service , Inventory and Monitoring Institute Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Travel Michigan Michigan Department of Natural Resources National Park Service

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