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Grand Historic Lowcountry/ Santee Pee Capital City/ Thorough- Old Olde Discover South
Strand Charleston Resort Islands Cooper Dee Lake Murray bred 96 English Upcountry Carolina
# of U.S. Visitors* 10,300,000 5,200,000 3,100,000 1,000,000 1,700,000 2,700,000 600,000 500,000 800,000 4,500,000 28,470,000
(Revised # for 1996) 9,100,000 5,000,000 3,200,000 700,000 1,100,000 3,200,000 700,000 700,000 800,000 4,800,000 27,950,000
Length of Stay (days) 4.4 3.5 5.3 2.8 2.5 2.9 3.7 2.8 3.2 2.8 3.3
Party Size 2.2 2.1 2 2.1 2.0 1.9 2.0 1.9 2.6 1.8 2.1
Purpose: Business 9% 17% 19% 10% 23% 22% 24% 19% 14% 21% 12%
Friends/Relatives 18% 38% 20% 45% 41% 46% 47% 43% 53% 43% 26%
Rec/Entertainment 42% 23% 32% 19% 13% 13% 13% 20% 15% 12% 20%
Personal/Other 14% 11% 10% 8% 11% 4% 5% 6% 6% 10% 9%
Pass-Through 17% 12% 18% 19% 12% 15% 11% 12% 12% 15% 33%
Transportation: Car 87% 80% 82% 90% 89% 86% 82% 97% 91% 83% 86%
Air 8% 18% 15% 10% 6% 12% 15% 2% 8% 11% 10%
Lodging: Hotel 46% 41% 34% 22% 36% 26% 34% 21% 24% 36% 33%
Condo/Time Share 15% 7% 29% 1% 0% 0% 0% 9% 0% 0% 8%
RV/Camper/Tent 5% 2% 4% 9% 6% 4% 0% 7% 6% 2% 3%
Season: Winter 11% 15% 16% 24% 12% 21% 29% 15% 20% 24% 18%
Spring 23% 29% 23% 27% 26% 23% 20% 20% 17% 21% 23%
Summer 39% 36% 39% 30% 33% 28% 24% 43% 49% 28% 36%
Fall 27% 20% 21% 19% 29% 29% 27% 22% 14% 27% 23%
Activities: Shopping 41% 34% 36% 30% 20% 36% 30% 14% 26% 34% 29%
Beach/Lake 58% 19% 47% 8% 4% 3% 0% 16% 1% 3% 24%
History/Museum 4% 36% 17% 5% 2% 6% 3% 5% 2% 4% 10%
Natl/State Park 7% 8% 6% 9% 2% 2% 3% 1% 5% 3% 5%
Festival 6% 9% 5% 5% 4% 4% 1% 2% 7% 10% 5%
Amusement Park 16% 0% 3% 0% 3% 3% 0% 1% 15% 0% 6%
Hunt/Fish/Hike 9% 17% 14% 32% 5% 7% 8% 7% 8% 8% 10%
Night Life 13% 7% 7% 2% 1% 5% 1% 6% 5% 7% 6%
Golf/Tennis 19% 4% 19% 3% 5% 5% 1% 21% 1% 3% 8%
Sports Event 2% 2% 2% 1% 9% 6% 0% 4% 5% 6% 3%
Top Visitor Origins: NC (30%) SC (25%) GA (15%) SC (38%) SC (28%) SC (36%) SC (30%) SC (51%) SC (24%) SC (26%) NC (22%)
SC (17%) GA (17%) SC (14%) GA (13%) NC (21%) NC (19%) GA (12%) GA (15%) NC (17%) GA (19%) SC (20%)
VA ( 9%) NC (12%) NC (11%) NC (13%) VA (10%) GA (15%) AL ( 9%) NC (10%) OH (12%) NC (19%) GA (15%)
OH ( 6%) FL ( 5%) OH (10%) FL ( 9%) FL ( 9%) FL ( 5%) FL ( 9%) FL ( 5%) GA (12%) FL ( 7%) FL ( 8%)
PA ( 6%) TN ( 5%) VA ( 8%) VA ( 6%) GA ( 7%) PA ( 4%) MD ( 7%) TN ( 4%) CT ( 7%) AL ( 4%) VA ( 6%)
Median Age of HoH 49 48 50 52 45 50 51 54.5 49 47 49
Median HH Income $47,500 $47,500 $67,500 $47,500 $33,800 $47,500 $45,000 $67,500 $38,800 $55,000 $47,500
*Visitation estimates for 1994 to 1997 were revised downward by the U.S. Travel Data Center due to confusion in their national survey over "travel party size" and "# of household
members traveling." Note that the sum of the regional totals exceeds the statewide total due to the 7% of travelers in 1997 visiting multiple S.C. destinations on a trip.
Also there is a margin of error associated with the reported statistics due to sampling variability inherent in the survey process.Source: S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism cited from "TheTourism Industry in South Carolina Annual Report," June 1998.
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