Handouts - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

party (i.e., family and/or group) spent or plan on spending in a typical day while in the area. A summary of these expenditure patterns is reported in Table land Figure 6. Figure 6 Average Expenditure Patterns Lodging Restruarants Grocery Stores Apparel asoline/Servics Misc. Retail ainmentlMovies Other Onalaska $0 $20 $40 $60 $60 $100 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension The nature of youth hockey tournaments dictates that the major categories of expenditures are overnight lodging and restaurants. The average party spent about $95 per day for lodging which is reflective of typical hotel and motel rates in the study area. Typical expenditures for eating includes about $66 per day in restaurants also about $9 in grocery store purchases. These latter purchases might be for in -room consumption or for the return trip home. Other major categories of expenditures includes about $21 for gasoline and car servicing, and $13 for apparel. The latter is most often hockey Table 1 Averace Expenditure Per Partv related apparel or souvenirs of the tournament or trip in general. These expenditures are no doubt conservative as the survey was taken on Saturday morning in most cases and all expenditures are not fully accounted for. Total per day expenditures for the typical party participating in a youth hockey tournament is about $220 with a slightly higher level in La Crosse than Onalaska. Given the number of tournaments hosted by the ice -rinks in Lacrosse and Onalaska, we estimate that there are about 1,845 individual youth participating. This translates into 1,845 parties, or about 6,458 persons including players and other party members. Given that one team from either La Crosse or Onalaska generally hosts any given tournament, this translates into about 1,575 players, or parties, traveling to the area to participate in the tournaments. Given an average per party expenditure level of $440 (2 days), youth hockey tournaments inject slightly less than $700,000 of new spending into the local economy. III Economic Impact Methods In addition to developing a general profile of the participants of youth hockey tournaments, a focal point of this study is to assess the economic impact of these tournaments on the La Crosse/Onalaska area. For this study, the impact of the tournaments comes from the spending of nearly $700,000 in the local economy. LaCrosse Onalaska Combined Total Expenditure Lodging $ 96.69 $ 94.41 $ 95.58 $ 295,342 Restruarants $ 67.83 $ 65.18 $ 66.30 $ 204,867 Grocery Stores $ 9.20 $ 9.42 $ 9.33 $ 28,830 Apparel $ 12.41 $ 13.13 $ 12.83 $ 39,645 Gasoline/Service $ 21.41 $ 20.41 $ 20.83 $ 64,365 Misc. Retail $ 9.84 $ 8.01 $ 8.78 $ 27,130 Entertainment/Movies $ 2.29 $ 1.95 $ 2.09 $ 6,458 Other $ 6.22 $ 2.22 $ 3.91 $ 12,082 otal 1 $ 225.89 $ 214.73 $ 219.65 $ 678,719