Untapped Potential: Leveraging Local Partnerships to Elevate the Camping Experience
The latest version (March 2024) of MC Hospitality Highlights focuses on two separate yet related topics: campgrounds collaborating with other local businesses and experts and creating camping demand based on collaborations, or gaps in local offerings.
Organization
MC Hospitality Highlights
Publication Date
2024
Location
National or Global
Topic
Health
Infrastructure
Participation
Rural Communities
Activity
Camping
Related Resources
2015 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities
The Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities is a compilation of strategies, organized by 11 common "goal areas," that villages, towns, and small cities can use to evaluate their existing policies to create healthy, environmentally resilient, and economically robust rural places.
2009 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Smart Growth Guidelines for Sustainable Design and Development
The guidelines can serve as a checklist for local officials, state or regional policy makers, developers, and community members to ensure that programs, plans, and proposed developments incorporate elements at the location, site, and building levels to result in more sustainable, affordable housing.
American Trails
American Trails Resource Library
All kinds of resources from articles to guides to webinars that provide information and guidance for all things trails.
Explore the Trends Shaping Outdoor Recreation
Outdoor Industry Association: 2025 Outdoor Participation Trends Report
Bureau of Economic Analysis: 2024 Economic Statistics for Wisconsin
Adventure Travel Trade Association: Travel Market Sizing and the New Adventure Traveler
KOA: 2025 Camping & Outdoor Hospitality Report
American Sportfishing Association: Economic Contributions of Recreational Fishing
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