We also provide help for managers and policy makers in interpreting and evaluating economic impact reports. Multipliers for the region of interest These are listed here in order of their importance. One shouldn't even pretend to estimate economic impacts without a reasonable estimate of the number and types of tourists in an area. Given estimates of tourism activity, one simply needs estimates of average levels of spending for different kinds of tourists to estimate total spending in an area. We provide some guidelines for conducting spending surveys, a number of spending profiles from recent studies, and spreadsheets for combining use and spending.
Multipliers are the least important of the three inputs.
Multipliers are only needed if one wishes to include secondary effects. Note that satellite methods generally do not include secondary effects and for most uses of economic impact studies, multipliers are probably not necessary. It is helpful to have some ratios of spending to jobs and income to convert direct effects to these better measures of economic impacts. The MGM2 manuals and Appendices have additional information. Our bulletins and reports provide examples of the use of the tools and data provided here.