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Brent Hugh
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Someone from our state division of tourism was asking about research into average spending (per day,
per trip, etc.) by bicycle tourists.
Do any of you know any good research in this area?
Below is what a quick google search picked up, just FYI:
http://elena.aut.ac.nz/homepages/staff/Tony-Bewlay/can/home/articles/aussie_touring.html
Research by Tourism Victoria has shown (Hopkins 1999), backpacker tourists (of which cycle tourists
are a subset) spend less per day - about Aus$59 (US$36) - than the average overseas tourist, but
stay longer and thus tend to spend about double the average per capita.
According to data from Bicycle Victoria's Great Rides and the Bicycle Institute of NSW's Big Ride,
local cycle tourists spend about this amount per day, too. The spending of cycle tourists tends to
be of kinds that have high multiplier effects, estimated at around 2.6 by the Bureau of Resource
Economics, in local economy and employment.
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http://www.lgc.org/freepub/PDF/Land_Use/focus/walk_to_money.pdf
Tourists coming to Vermont to walk and bicycle in the scenic, human- scale towns and compact,
pedestrian-friendly town centers have proved to be an economic boon. In 1992, an estimated 32,500
visiting cyclists spent $13.1 million in Vermont about twice the amount of money generated by
Vermont's maple syrup producers in a good year.
Source: Bicycle Touring in Vermont and Vermont's Scenic Byways Program, Bruce Burgess for the
Vermont Agency of Transportation, 1995
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http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources/08_0538.pdf
Average UK expenditure was £146 (US$232) per trip, or £30-35 ($48-56) per night. (Source: Sustrans
Cycle Tourism Information Pack TT21,
1998).
VTCC Stepping Out brochure evaluation (2000) indicated Victorian trip spending of between Aus$200
(US$123) and Aus$1200 (US$740), and average Aus$400-Aus$500 (US$247-US$308) per trip.
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Here is contact info for Sustrans:
"Sustrans publishes a comprehensive guide to standards for the construction of the National Cycling
network. They live at 35 King Street Bristol. Tel. 01179 268893
"Website www.sustrans.org.uk
"Sustrans also produce a very good information pack (number TT21) explaining the possibilities and
benefits of developing tourism called, logically enough 'Cycle Tourism'."
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Brent Hugh/bhugh @ mwsc.edu
+++++++++++++++++ Brent Hugh / bhugh @ mwsc.edu +++++++++++++++
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+ Piano Home Page : http://staff.mwsc.edu/~bhugh +
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per trip, etc.) by bicycle tourists.
Do any of you know any good research in this area?
Below is what a quick google search picked up, just FYI:
http://elena.aut.ac.nz/homepages/staff/Tony-Bewlay/can/home/articles/aussie_touring.html
Research by Tourism Victoria has shown (Hopkins 1999), backpacker tourists (of which cycle tourists
are a subset) spend less per day - about Aus$59 (US$36) - than the average overseas tourist, but
stay longer and thus tend to spend about double the average per capita.
According to data from Bicycle Victoria's Great Rides and the Bicycle Institute of NSW's Big Ride,
local cycle tourists spend about this amount per day, too. The spending of cycle tourists tends to
be of kinds that have high multiplier effects, estimated at around 2.6 by the Bureau of Resource
Economics, in local economy and employment.
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http://www.lgc.org/freepub/PDF/Land_Use/focus/walk_to_money.pdf
Tourists coming to Vermont to walk and bicycle in the scenic, human- scale towns and compact,
pedestrian-friendly town centers have proved to be an economic boon. In 1992, an estimated 32,500
visiting cyclists spent $13.1 million in Vermont about twice the amount of money generated by
Vermont's maple syrup producers in a good year.
Source: Bicycle Touring in Vermont and Vermont's Scenic Byways Program, Bruce Burgess for the
Vermont Agency of Transportation, 1995
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http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources/08_0538.pdf
Average UK expenditure was £146 (US$232) per trip, or £30-35 ($48-56) per night. (Source: Sustrans
Cycle Tourism Information Pack TT21,
1998).
VTCC Stepping Out brochure evaluation (2000) indicated Victorian trip spending of between Aus$200
(US$123) and Aus$1200 (US$740), and average Aus$400-Aus$500 (US$247-US$308) per trip.
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Here is contact info for Sustrans:
"Sustrans publishes a comprehensive guide to standards for the construction of the National Cycling
network. They live at 35 King Street Bristol. Tel. 01179 268893
"Website www.sustrans.org.uk
"Sustrans also produce a very good information pack (number TT21) explaining the possibilities and
benefits of developing tourism called, logically enough 'Cycle Tourism'."
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Brent Hugh/bhugh @ mwsc.edu
+++++++++++++++++ Brent Hugh / bhugh @ mwsc.edu +++++++++++++++
+ Missouri Western St College Dept of Music, St. Joseph, MO +
+ Piano Home Page : http://staff.mwsc.edu/~bhugh +
+ Music IQ Songs : http://mp3.com/MusicIQ + ++ Music of the Human Genome :
http://mp3.com/brent_d_hugh ++++