Sunday, January 13, 2008
Ohioans stayed closer to home, used state parks in 2007
The way Dan West looks at it, 2007 was a good year for Ohio's state parks. The parks had an increased number of visitors and revenue gains from several sources.
West, a native of the Springfield area and 1974 Northeastern High School graduate, is chief of the Ohio Division of Parks. He pointed to 50.4 million visitor occasions (some people visit more than once) at the state's 74 parks in '07, up 2 percent from '06, and increased revenue from campgrounds, up 5 percent from '06, as positives and something to build on for 2008.
Studies have shown that people are staying closer to home these days, and it's probably due to gasoline prices. In some cases, we've seen people are taking even more trips than before, but they've been shorter.
Instead of going someplace for a week or more, they are going to state parks and staying a couple of nights in our campgrounds and get-away rentals (cedar cabins, rent-an-RV, camper cabins, Conestogas, rent-a-camps and cabents). People might not be able to afford a cottage or a lodge room, so they have made these hot sellers.
Full Story...
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RV Education 101 has bundled it's instructional DVDs into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVDs (3 hours of information) that help RVers understand how an RV works, and how to maintain and use their RV. There are DVD sets for motorized or towable units.
West, a native of the Springfield area and 1974 Northeastern High School graduate, is chief of the Ohio Division of Parks. He pointed to 50.4 million visitor occasions (some people visit more than once) at the state's 74 parks in '07, up 2 percent from '06, and increased revenue from campgrounds, up 5 percent from '06, as positives and something to build on for 2008.
Studies have shown that people are staying closer to home these days, and it's probably due to gasoline prices. In some cases, we've seen people are taking even more trips than before, but they've been shorter.
Instead of going someplace for a week or more, they are going to state parks and staying a couple of nights in our campgrounds and get-away rentals (cedar cabins, rent-an-RV, camper cabins, Conestogas, rent-a-camps and cabents). People might not be able to afford a cottage or a lodge room, so they have made these hot sellers.
Full Story...
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RV Education 101 has bundled it's instructional DVDs into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVDs (3 hours of information) that help RVers understand how an RV works, and how to maintain and use their RV. There are DVD sets for motorized or towable units.
Two drifters off to see the world... at least the USA
Follow along as Bob & Molly and their black cat Minkie, travel across the USA via motorhome... We left our home in Warsaw, Va early on Christmas Eve, 2007 to commence our travels westward, first headed to Yuma, AZ, then Quartzsite, AZ and ultimately to California and several points in between. Thus begins their travel diary...
