Durango Exhibit 24: City of Durango, Colorado: Economic Impacts of Whitewater Recreation Final Report

• Description: Durango RICD
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 6/1/2006
• Author: RPI Consulting
• Title: Durango Exhibit 24: City of Durango, Colorado: Economic Impacts of Whitewater Recreation Final Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Court Documents

City of Durango: Economic Impacts of Whitewater Recreation Final Report
2006
Figure Al. 2015 Projection of Tourist Pleasure Visits to Colorado
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20
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1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Source: 2004 Longwood's International Colorado Tourism Study, State office of Tourism and Economic Development
However La Plata County
will not attract all
of those visits. In order to estimate
the amount
of State tourism that will
likely occur in La
Plata County, RPI consulted the State
Demography
Sections basic income for
tourism for all counties (La Plata County collects about 2.5% of all of
the new dollars collected
from tourists in Colorado each year). So, assuming that
visitation is
proportionate to revenues,
RPI applied this
adjustment to the total kayaker visits
to find that
there are about 1000 out
of state kayakers
that visit the Durango Whitewater Park each year
for a total of about 1400
user days.
Figure A2. La Plata County Share of Statewide Tourism
All Other
Colorado
- ounties
98%
La Plata
2%
Source: Colorado Demography Section Base Economic Analysis for Colorado Counties
Low
estimates
for 2015 assume no
growth
in State
Tourism, while high estimates employ a
linear
projection
of overnight pleasure
trips to
Colorado
as measured by Longwood's International
since
1994 to
obtain a growth factor
of 15%
between
2005 and 2015.
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