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South Dakota Travel Monitoring System
Travel activity indicators for Region 3, October 2009.

Travel activity indicators (Define)

October 2008  

October 2009  

2009 Versus 2008 

October 

 

Year-to-Date
 

Indicators of overall travel activity

Rural highway traffic counts

27,807 

28,246 

1.6% 

 

3.2% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel overnight stays

51,042 

48,037 

-5.9% 

 

1.3% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel occupancy rates

64.5% 

60.7% 

-5.9% 

 

-0.3% 

Smith Travel Research average hotel/motel room rates

$68.52 

$70.98 

3.6% 

 

1.9% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel revenue per available room

$44.21 

$43.10 

-2.5% 

 

1.6% 

Lodging sales tax (Deflated)

$2,647,080.91 

$2,436,851.65 

-7.9% 

 

4.7% 

Tourism Tax Due (Deflated)

$54,809.07 

$42,724.95 

-22.0% 

 

-9.5% 

BBB Tax Due (Deflated)

$73,068.81 

$82,956.19 

13.5% 

 

0.6% 
 

Indicators of recreational travel as a subset of overall travel activity

Aggregate attractions attendance

2,623 

2,549 

-2.8% 

 

13.2% 

State park attendance

73,401 

79,508 

8.3% 

 

22.6% 

State park campground occupancy rates

3.2% 

3.9% 

19.0% 

 

31.5% 

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National Social and Economic Indicators (Define)

U.S. Unemployment rate

6.5% 

10.2% 

56.9% 

 

65.0% 

U.S. Consumer Price Index

216.6 

216.2 

-0.2% 

 

-0.9% 

U.S. Travel Price Index

 

 

 

 

 

Regular unleaded gasoline prices

3.01 

2.50 

-16.9% 

 

-35.5% 

Expectations Index (EI)

35.7 

67.0 

87.7% 

 

11.1% 

Present Situation Index (PSI)

43.5 

21.1 

-51.5% 

 

-67.8% 

Consumer Confidence Index
(composite of EI and PSI)

38.8 

48.7 

25.5% 

 

-28.4% 

Euros per U.S. dollar

0.75 

0.67 

-10.5% 

 

9.1% 

Canadian Dollars Per U.S. dollar

1.18 

1.05 

-11.0% 

 

11.9% 

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October

 

Year-To-Date

Year-over-year results for all regions

 

 

       

 

October

 

Full Years

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Trends in several indicators of travel activity, all for Region 3 

  



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