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The American Recreation Coalition (ARC) has taken a look at the current and projected state of outdoor recreation in the U.S. through 2016. \u00a0Their focus is primarily on the industries and companies that support recreationists. \u00a0They conclude that these industries have seen significant gains this year and they anticipate more gains next year.<\/p>\n
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While changes are in the works, \u00a0Federal bean\u00a0counters, so far, \u00a0don’t think of outdoor recreation an an industry per se. \u00a0Instead, they tabulate a lot of other industries, many of which have components that are driven by activity of outdoor recreationists. \u00a0According to ARC, outdoor recreationists spend $650 billion per year and support tens of millions of jobs. \u00a0Their\u00a0estimates could be off by a lot and outdoor recreation would still be a big business.<\/p>\n
Cars have always played a huge part in the American economy, \u00a0however outdoor recreation is right up there. \u00a0The Auto Alliance estimates that car buyers spend $953 billion a year including purchases and maintenance\u00a0while\u00a0automobile manufacturers support\u00a07.25 million jobs in the economy. This suggests\u00a0that workers in outdoor recreation are paid less than workers in the automobile industry (we already knew that), but overall the industries are not too far apart in their overall economic impact.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of tiny contributors to the growth in outdoor recreation, Explore! the eMagazine<\/a> included, however the major factors driving growth in the industry are:<\/p>\n It appears that the most important players in outdoor recreation are the public land agencies\u00a0that are supplying the recreation opportunity and encouraging people to use it. \u00a0They all face tough times being at the mercy of Congress for their budgets and for recreational enhancements since the Soil and Water Conservation Fund\u00a0(S&WCF) died. \u00a0We all expect Congress \u00a0to come to its senses over the S&WCF, but that may take an election that gets the institution functional again. \u00a0The non-Federal agencies do have some opportunities through state and local funding that are not available to the Federal agencies.<\/p>\n It terms of the activities of\u00a0recreationists\u00a0on these lands it looks like camping (tent and RV)\u00a0and fishing are\u00a0pretty strong and growing. \u00a0The other activities examined by the ARC seem to be a mixed bag\u00a0at fairly stable levels.<\/p>\n The American Recreation Coalition (ARC) has taken a look at the current and projected state of outdoor recreation in the U.S. through 2016. \u00a0Their focus is primarily on the industries and companies that support recreationists. \u00a0They conclude that these industries have seen significant gains this year and they anticipate more gains next year. Economic Impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-factoids","category-policy","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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National Parks<\/span> with an unprecedented advertising campaign leading to the centennial of the Park system in 2016. \u00a0A campaign that will culminate next year. \u00a0Besides boosting domestic interest in outdoor recreation, these efforts are drawing foreign visitors to the parks. \u00a0Bringing foreign visitors to the U.S. to spend their outdoor recreation dollars is comparable to exporting cars to other nations. \u00a0It brings outside\u00a0money into the U.S. economy. \u00a0The goal is 100 million annual foreign visitors.<\/li>\n![\"fishing\"](\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fishing.jpg\")
Fishing<\/span> is a growing activity for recreationists. \u00a0The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and the Outdoor Foundation, say forty-six million Americans \u2013 15.8% of the U.S. population ages six and older \u2013 participated in fishing last year. \u00a0A \u201c60 in 60\u201d initiative by RBFF \u00a0wants to see 60 million anglers ages 6 and older by 2021. \u00a0Another RBFF initiative, “Take Me Fishing”<\/a> in partnership with Disney Media and Walt Disney World Resort, is drawing kids\u00a0to fishing. \u00a0These efforts should help growth in fishing continue in the future.<\/li>\n![\"Canoe\"](\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Canoe.jpg\")
Adventure sports<\/span> like whitewater rafting, kayaking and other paddlesports along with other general recreation and cabin rentals saw good growth\u00a0in 2o15, but zip lines and aerial adventure parks did not do so well. \u00a0Apparently there are more people that enjoy heights, but there are also more venues\u00a0to satisfy their needs.<\/li>\nConclusion<\/h1>\n
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