# Definition of terms

Like visitor surveys, definitions of what is a ‘visitor’ or ‘tourist’ changes from study to study. For the purposes of this report, the following definitions will be used unless stated otherwise.

**TOURSIM** the generic term to cover both demand and supply elements of the activities of persons identified as visitors

**VISITORS** the common denominator that covers all the forms of tourism defined above for the same range of purposes\[1]:

**LEISURE DAY VISITORS** ending less than 3 hours away from home but outside their usual environment, for general leisure, recreational or social purposes.  Not included (in the published volume and value of tourism statistics in England), these short stay leisure day visitors contribute directly to the local visitor economy and should also be formally recognized in destination management decisions.

**TOURIST DAY VISITORS** commencing from a home location for a non-routine purpose, for a duration of not less than 3 hours outside their environment for general leisure, recreational and social purposes.

**DAY VISITOR** a visitor who has not stayed away from home the night before and/or the night after their visit regardless of length of stay in hours

**STAYING VISITOR** a visitor who stays for at least one night in the Peak District National Park

**TOURIST NUMBERS** relates to the estimated number of individual visits to the area

**VISITOR DAYS** the estimated number of days spent within the area by the different visitor types defined by STEAM. Visitor Days are calculated by multiplying the staying visitors by average length of stay and adding the Day Visitors.

**AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY** visitor days divided by visitor numbers

**SERVICED ACCOMMODATION** hotel-like amenities such as room service & house keeping

**NON-SERVICED ACCOMODATION** such as camping, self-catering youth hostels, holiday centres

**SFR** staying with friends or relatives

**BED STOCK** number of bed spaces

**DIRECT REVENUE** denotes visitor expenditure

**INDIRECT REVENUE** denotes secondary expenditure from direct items (e.g. as hotels purchase food and drinks from local suppliers and use the services of local laundries, builders, banks, utility companies, etc.) Not all these effects will arise in the local area since some such expenditure will go to suppliers elsewhere in the region or nationally

**FTE** denotes full-time equivalent jobs

**HIGH PEAK/SEASON** from April through to October

**LOW PEAK/SEASON** from November through to March

**PEAK VISITOR TIME** from 10am to 4pm

**INFLUENCE AREA** set at the Peak District National Park landscape character arear


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