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Show Economic impact of spending of visitors to Zion National Park Visitors to Zion National Park contributed an estimated $9,670,200 to gross expenditures expendi-tures to the surrounding economy eco-nomy in 19(i8, the Southwest Regional Office of the Na- tional Park Service reported today. This outpouring of travel money also had the following beneficial effects, the report said: Produced $7,257,2(X) in personal per-sonal income for Zion area people and others living on routes between visitor point of origin and the park. Yielded $lirl,l(X) in Federal Fed-eral taxes. Regional Director Frank F. Kowski said the figures aw based on research techniques usi'd by Dr. Ernest W. Swan-son, Swan-son, North Carolina State University Uni-versity economist. Dr. Swan-son Swan-son recently completed a "Study "Stu-dy of the Impact of National Park System Travel on the National Economy in 1967." Comparing the 1908 National Nation-al Park System appropiation of $546,600 for Zion National Park with the $7,257,200 in personal Income realized from Zion visitor spending, Kowski Kow-ski noted the estimated $13 to -1 return on the dollar. In Dr. Swanson's national parks study, the economist said "Personal income resulting result-ing from national park spending spend-ing Is quite sizable as a matter mat-ter of gain to the Nation from assets being preserved for posterity. pos-terity. Unlike the mining and the oil industries which give up nonrenewable resources, the National Park System yields its contributions with little or no diminution of its resource values." While the enjoyment and enrichment of a National Park System experience cannot be evaluated in monetary terms, Dr. Swanson said, "dollar signs can be placed on the values to the nation of the travel outlays and expenditures expendi-tures arising from visits to these assets." |