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South Dakota Travel Monitoring System
Travel activity indicators for Region 3, 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

34,252 

36,483 

6.5% 

 

2.2% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel overnight stays

52,766 

53,352 

1.1% 

 

2.5% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel occupancy rates

70.8% 

69.7% 

-1.5% 

 

-0.3% 

Smith Travel Research average hotel/motel room rates

$68.59 

$69.54 

1.4% 

 

3.9% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel revenue per available room

$48.54 

$48.46 

-0.2% 

 

3.6% 

Lodging sales tax (Deflated)

$1,990,169.18 

$2,283,624.88 

14.7% 

 

10.2% 

Tourism Tax Due (Deflated)

$33,696.11 

$37,288.57 

10.7% 

 

-3.1% 

BBB Tax Due (Deflated)

$78,181.92 

$88,088.45 

12.7% 

 

-2.5% 
 

Indicators of recreational travel as a subset of overall travel activity

Aggregate attractions attendance

5,946 

6,801 

14.4% 

 

15.3% 

State park attendance

282,227 

360,449 

27.7% 

 

22.4% 

State park campground occupancy rates

36.9% 

49.7% 

34.8% 

 

30.3% 

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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 3 

  



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