Yosemite’s 4 million visitors spent $379 million

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This just in from Yosemite National Park: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that more than four million visitors to Yosemite National Park spent $379 million in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 5,057 jobs in the local area. The information on Yosemite is part of a peer-reviewed spending analysis of national park visitors across the country conducted by Michigan State University for the NPS.######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. [...]

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