Description
The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports economic activity within park gateway communities. This data package contains the visitor spending and trip characteristics data used in the 2024 annual economic contribution analysis that measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generates business sales, and supports jobs and income.
Users can explore current year visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and economic output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. Spending Effects report series are also available online via an interactive tool. The interactive tool is available at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/vse.htm.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| segment_shares_monthly.csv | CSV | Monthly park-level visitor segment shares for 2024 | Open resource |
| profile_summary.csv | CSV | Park spending profiles, inflated to 2024 dollars | Open resource |
| spending_profiles.csv | CSV | Visitor Spending Effect profiles used for each park in 2024 | Open resource |
| trip_characteristics.csv | CSV | Park-level trip characteristic profiles for 2024 | Open resource |
| Visitor_Spending_Effects_2024_metadata.xml | XML | Open resource |