Tourism Traffic
Key Questions
- What is tourism?
- What is the tourism traffic tool?
- How can the tourism traffic tool help tourism businesses and destinations?
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General Approach
Explore the regression analysis that drive the tourism traffic models.
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Tourism Traffic Tool
This tool reflects the relationship between weather conditions and pleasure travel by automobile. Results are displayed as daily traffic counts.
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Winter Recreation
Key Questions
- How will climate change affect winter recreation in Michigan?
- What was the motivation for doing the study and for developing a tool for downhill skiing?
- How will the Winter Recreation Tool be helpful?
General Approach
SkiTool
This tool enables you to investigate the likely effects of various snowmaking strategies for various winter temperature conditions for ski areas in different locations of Michigan.
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User Cases
Ski and Golf Models
In addition to the tourism models/tools mentioned here, we also developed models for various ski and golf resorts around the state. Click here to view brief summaries of these models.
Historical Weather Tool
This is another tool that tourism
and recreation stakeholders could use. It enables you to access over 40 years of daily weather data by selecting several climate variables for a time period of your choice.
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