Economic, Resource, and Fiscal Impacts of Visitors on Washoe County, Nevada

Abstract

This article demonstrates a methodology developed to estimate the economic, resource, and fiscal impacts that visitors had on Washoe County, Nevada, in 1993. Average daily visitor expenditures were used to estimate the total economic activity, personal income, employment, population, housing units, residential water and electrical requirements, commercial water and electrical requirements, sales tax collections, lodging tax collections, and gaming tax and license collections generated by visitors to Washoe County.