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South Dakota Travel Monitoring System
Travel activity indicators for Region Statewide, September 2008.

Travel activity indicators (Define)

September 2007  

September 2008  

2008 Versus 2007 

September 

 

Year-to-Date
 

Indicators of overall travel activity

Rural highway traffic counts

192,956 

183,094 

-5.1% 

 

-3.0% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel overnight stays

440,526 

436,557 

-0.9% 

 

1.2% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel occupancy rates

66.9% 

64.0% 

-4.3% 

 

-1.4% 

Smith Travel Research average hotel/motel room rates

$66.23 

$69.24 

4.5% 

 

6.1% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel revenue per available room

$44.32 

$44.33 

0.0% 

 

4.7% 

Lodging sales tax (Deflated)

$50,199,779.23 

$49,534,022.53 

-1.3% 

 

-1.5% 

Tourism Tax Due (Deflated)

 

$1,037,450.49 

 

 

 

BBB Tax Due (Deflated)

 

$1,704,004.27 

 

 

 
 

Indicators of recreational travel as a subset of overall travel activity

Aggregate attractions attendance

464,527 

551,709 

18.8% 

 

-2.2% 

State park attendance

656,915 

628,398 

-4.3% 

 

0.4% 

State park campground occupancy rates

22.0% 

17.4% 

-20.9% 

 

-0.8% 

Deadwood gaming tax (Deflated)

$745,702.19 

$773,051.01 

3.7%  

 

4.5%  

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National Social and Economic Indicators (Define)

U.S. Unemployment rate

4.7% 

6.1% 

29.8% 

 

19.1% 

U.S. Consumer Price Index

208.5 

218.8 

4.9% 

 

4.6% 

U.S. Travel Price Index

 

 

 

 

 

Regular unleaded gasoline prices

2.82 

3.71 

31.7% 

 

30.5% 

Expectations Index (EI)

85.0 

61.5 

-27.6% 

 

-41.7% 

Present Situation Index (PSI)

121.2 

61.1 

-49.6% 

 

-39.8% 

Consumer Confidence Index
(composite of EI and PSI)

99.5 

61.4 

-38.3% 

 

-40.8% 

Euros per U.S. dollar

0.72 

0.70 

-3.0% 

 

-11.6% 

Canadian Dollars Per U.S. dollar

1.03 

1.06 

3.1% 

 

-7.8% 

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September

 

Year-To-Date

Year-over-year results for all regions

 

 

       

 

September

 

Full Years

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

  




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