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South Dakota Travel Monitoring System
Travel activity indicators for Region 1, June 2009.

Travel activity indicators (Define)

June 2008  

June 2009  

2009 Versus 2008 

June 

 

Year-to-Date
 

Indicators of overall travel activity

Rural highway traffic counts

79,731 

80,592 

1.1% 

 

2.7% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel overnight stays

142,525 

140,505 

-1.4% 

 

-4.0% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel occupancy rates

71.3% 

71.0% 

-0.4% 

 

-7.6% 

Smith Travel Research average hotel/motel room rates

$75.73 

$78.72 

3.9% 

 

0.9% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel revenue per available room

$53.97 

$55.88 

3.5% 

 

-6.8% 

Lodging sales tax (Deflated)

$7,920,520.25 

$6,998,696.53 

-11.6% 

 

-8.2% 

Tourism Tax Due (Deflated)

$94,814.68 

$100,272.80 

5.8% 

 

-4.1% 

BBB Tax Due (Deflated)

$629,629.83 

$586,445.43 

-6.9% 

 

0.0% 
 

Indicators of recreational travel as a subset of overall travel activity

Aggregate attractions attendance

12,231 

12,868 

5.2% 

 

-3.5% 

State park attendance

333,434 

325,236 

-2.5% 

 

0.0% 

State park campground occupancy rates

53.4% 

65.0% 

21.8% 

 

22.3% 

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National Social and Economic Indicators (Define)

U.S. Unemployment rate

5.5% 

9.5% 

72.7% 

 

68.8% 

U.S. Consumer Price Index

218.8 

215.7 

-1.4% 

 

-0.6% 

U.S. Travel Price Index

272.6 

246.7 

-9.5% 

 

 

Regular unleaded gasoline prices

3.99 

2.60 

-34.9% 

 

-38.9% 

Expectations Index (EI)

41.4 

65.5 

58.2% 

 

-8.7% 

Present Situation Index (PSI)

65.4 

25.0 

-61.8% 

 

-70.9% 

Consumer Confidence Index
(composite of EI and PSI)

51.0 

49.3 

-3.3% 

 

-41.6% 

Euros per U.S. dollar

0.64 

0.71 

11.0% 

 

14.9% 

Canadian Dollars Per U.S. dollar

1.02 

1.13 

10.8% 

 

19.8% 

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June

 

Year-To-Date

Year-over-year results for all regions

 

 

       

 

June

 

Full Years

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Trends in several indicators of travel activity, all for Region 1 

  



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