Utah Tourism Facts
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Background of Lesson
Instructions for Lesson
Use this information to answer the questions below
According to the "key findings" section on page 1:
How much money did visitors spend in Utah during 2020?
That was a decrease from the year before. What percentage of a decrease was it?
How many travel and tourism jobs are in Utah?
How much tax revenue was created by tourism?
Did ski resorts and state parks see an increase or decrease in visitation during 2020?
How many fewer people visited national parks during 2020?
According to the graph on the bottom of page 1:
what was the busiest month for Utah's national parks in 2020?
what was the busiest month for Utah's national parks in 2021?
how many people visited Utah's national parks in August of 2021?
According to page 3, did Utah fare better or worse than the states around us?
According to table 1 on page 4, what industry brought in the most taxable sales in the years....
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
2020:
What were the total taxable sales in those same years: (keep in mind those numbers are in millions of dollars (2,500=2,500,000,000))
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
2020:
According to figure 10 on page 5, what country provides the highest percentage of travelers to Utah?
According to Table 3 on page 7:
what was the busiest national park in 2019?
What about in 2020?
How many visitors did the national parks have all together in 2019?
How many visitors did the national parks have all together in 2020?
Was it an increase or decrease of visitors between 2019 and 2020?
According to Table 4 on page 7:
what was the busiest national place (not park) in 2019?
What about in 2020?
How many visitors did the national places have all together in 2019?
How many visitors did the national places have all together in 2020?
Was it an increase or decrease of visitors between 2019 and 2020?
According to Table 5 on page 7:
What state park received the most visitors in 2019?
What about 2020?
how many people visited that park in 2020?
How many visitors did the state parks have all together in 2019?
How many visitors did the state parks have all together in 2020?
Was it an increase or decrease of visitors between 2019 and 2020?
Overall, what do you think caused all the changes in tourists from 2019 to 2020?