This report provides a measure of the economic impacts of travel at the state, region and county levels over the time period 1991-1994. Preliminary 1995 estimates are also provided at the state level.

• Room tax receipts collected in North Dakota have grown at an average annual rate of 6.6% per year since 1991. Total room taxes collected in North Dakota reached nearly $1.9 million during 1994.


• The largest portion of room tax receipts was collected in the Valley region with $1.0 million or 55% of the total collections in North Dakota. Room tax receipts in this region have grown at an average annual rate of 11.2% since 1991, the fastest regional growth rate in the state.


• Traveler spending in North Dakota reached an estimated $822.1 million during 1995, up 1.9% from the $806.6 million spent in 1994. Since 1988, travel spending has grown at an average rate of 5.2% per year.


• In 1995, the travel industry provided jobs for 14,320 people with a combined payroll of $133.4 million.


• Local governments collected $8 million in tax revenues as a result of visitor spending in North Dakota during 1995, an increase of 7.1% over the $7.5 million collected in 1994. Local taxes consist of city lodging taxes, eating and drinking taxes and local retail sales taxes.


• State taxes -- consisting of state sales and use taxes, state gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes plus personal income taxes which are a result of travel-generated employment -- amounted to $45.4 million in 1995.


• Travel impacts are concentrated in the Valley region where over one-third of all travel expenditures were made in 1994. Visitors spent approximately $288.2 million in the Valley region, accounting for 35.7% of total travel spending.


• In 1995, visitors made an estimated 9.6 million visits to North Dakota and spent approximately 20.5 million visitor-days in the state. Out-of-state visitors account for less than one-quarter of total visits and almost half (43.7%) of total spending.