Yellowstone Tourism Creates Over $330 Million In Local Economic Benefit
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National Park Service Yellowstone National Park Al Nash or Dan Hottle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yellowstone Tourism Creates Over $330 million In Local Economic Benefit A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 3,394,326 visitors to Yellowstone National Park spent $332,975,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 5,041 jobs in the local area. The information on Yellowstone is part of a peer-reviewed spending analysis of national park visitors across the country conducted by Michigan State University for the National Park Service. For 2011, that report shows $13 billion of direct spending by 279 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. That visitor spending had a $30 billion impact on the entire U.S. economy and supported 252,000 jobs nationwide. Most visitor spending supports jobs in lodging, food, and beverage service (63 percent) followed by recreation and entertainment (17 percent), other retail (11percent), transportation and fuel (7 percent) and wholesale and manufacturing (2 percent.) To download the report visit www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/products.cfm#MGM and click on Economic Benefits to Local Communities from National Park Visitation, 2011. The report includes information for visitor spending at individual parks and by state. To learn more about national parks in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and how the National Park Service works with communities to preserve local history, conserve the environment, and provide local recreation opportunities, go to www.nps.gov. - www.nps.gov/yell - Follow YellowstoneNPS on YouTube Facebook Twitter Flickr |
Did You Know?
Yellowstone contains approximately one-half of the world’s hydrothermal features. There are over 10,000 hydrothermal features, including over 300 geysers, in the park.