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

Travel activity indicators (Define)

September 2008  

September 2009  

2009 Versus 2008 

September 

 

Year-to-Date
 

Indicators of overall travel activity

Rural highway traffic counts

28,988 

31,625 

9.1% 

 

3.4% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel overnight stays

47,026 

48,706 

3.6% 

 

2.3% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel occupancy rates

61.4% 

63.6% 

3.6% 

 

0.5% 

Smith Travel Research average hotel/motel room rates

$63.84 

$64.57 

1.1% 

 

1.7% 

Smith Travel Research hotel/motel revenue per available room

$39.22 

$41.08 

4.7% 

 

2.2% 

Lodging sales tax (Deflated)

$3,259,156.19 

$2,932,734.22 

-10.0% 

 

6.5% 

Tourism Tax Due (Deflated)

$56,618.95 

$52,821.38 

-6.7% 

 

-7.7% 

BBB Tax Due (Deflated)

$89,870.65 

$99,517.71 

10.7% 

 

0.8% 
 

Indicators of recreational travel as a subset of overall travel activity

Aggregate attractions attendance

4,844 

5,790 

19.5% 

 

14.4% 

State park attendance

114,164 

121,074 

6.1% 

 

23.5% 

State park campground occupancy rates

9.0% 

20.7% 

129.7% 

 

31.8% 

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National Social and Economic Indicators (Define)

U.S. Unemployment rate

6.1% 

9.8% 

60.7% 

 

66.1% 

U.S. Consumer Price Index

218.8 

216.0 

-1.3% 

 

-0.9% 

U.S. Travel Price Index

 

 

 

 

 

Regular unleaded gasoline prices

3.71 

2.48 

-33.1% 

 

-37.3% 

Expectations Index (EI)

61.5 

73.7 

19.8% 

 

5.3% 

Present Situation Index (PSI)

61.1 

23.0 

-62.4% 

 

-68.7% 

Consumer Confidence Index
(composite of EI and PSI)

61.4 

53.4 

-13.0% 

 

-32.0% 

Euros per U.S. dollar

0.70 

0.69 

-1.6% 

 

11.4% 

Canadian Dollars Per U.S. dollar

1.06 

1.08 

2.2% 

 

14.9% 

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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 3 

  



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