Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this study was: 1. To estimate the number of visitor days to the 10 National Parks in England and Wales, the Broads and the New Forest (the term `Parks' refers to all 12 areas). 2. To provide information about the characteristics of visits to the Parks and the types of visitor coming to them. 3. To use, (for the first time), a comparable approach to surveying visitors in all the Parks in England and Wales.
Main Topics:
The characteristics of Park visitors; the nature of the visits; the reasons why people visit the Parks and views about services and facilities; visitors' expenditure; the scale of visits and how the number of visits varies throughout the year.
Site survey; next to pass - member of group to have next birthday was interviewed. Roadside survey; the next car to pass - driver interviewed.
Face-to-face interview
Postal survey
Self-completion