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Colorado Tourism

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What is a common economic risk of heavy tourism dependence in a Colorado mountain community?

  • No housing demand
  • Seasonality, housing pressure, labor shortages, and demand shocks
  • Guaranteed stable wages all year
  • No environmental pressure
Correct answer(s):
  • Seasonality, housing pressure, labor shortages, and demand shocks

Why can tourism have a multiplier effect in Colorado communities?

  • Visitor spending supports lodging, food, retail, transport, and other local businesses
  • Visitor spending leaves the economy immediately
  • Tourism never creates indirect jobs
  • Tourists spend only inside national parks
Correct answer(s):
  • Visitor spending supports lodging, food, retail, transport, and other local businesses

What makes a ski-centered mountain economy vulnerable?

  • No visitors at any time
  • Seasonality and dependence on weather-sensitive demand
  • Permanent tropical temperatures
  • Too much ocean shipping
Correct answer(s):
  • Seasonality and dependence on weather-sensitive demand

Why is Colorado’s tourism economy less dependent on one season than ski advertising may suggest?

  • Warm-weather recreation is absent
  • All tourism occurs in January
  • Summer and shoulder-season recreation also attract visitors
  • National parks close outside winter
Correct answer(s):
  • Summer and shoulder-season recreation also attract visitors

What helps support Colorado’s tourism economy?

  • Tropical rainforests only
  • Large seaports only
  • Ocean beaches and coral reefs
  • Mountains, national parks, ski resorts, historic towns, and outdoor recreation
Correct answer(s):
  • Mountains, national parks, ski resorts, historic towns, and outdoor recreation

Why is Colorado tourism not limited to winter?

  • The state has no summer visitors
  • Only snow sports are legal
  • Warm-season activities include hiking, camping, rafting, cycling, and sightseeing
  • All parks close in summer
Correct answer(s):
  • Warm-season activities include hiking, camping, rafting, cycling, and sightseeing

How did many former mining communities in Colorado change over time?

  • They became seaports
  • They became tropical plantations
  • They developed recreation and tourism economies
  • They were all abandoned
Correct answer(s):
  • They developed recreation and tourism economies