History of Peak District Visitor Surveys

This is a list of main Visitor Surveys in the Peak District National Park. There has been and will continue to be smaller ad-hoc surveys undertaken by the PDNPA, partners and Students in the National Park not listed here.

Data	Who?	Area	Aims	Methodology	Volume Data
Peak District National Park Visitor Survey 1986/87	PDNPA	PDNP	To obtain a profile of recreational users of the National Park. and a profile of the places visited in the National Park and the activities and behaviour patterns of visitors in these places	This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken in the National Park. The surveys were conducted at the roadside carried out on all the major routes leaving the Park (22 sites), over a nine month period commencing in June 1986 and finishing April 1987. A total of 14,856 drivers of vehicles were stopped and interviewed.	18.5 million visitor days
All Parks Visitor Survey 1994	Countryside Commission	PDNP and English National Parks	Designed to produce consistent data on the volume and value of recreation and tourism across the National Parks.	Information was collected via roadside surveys and recreation site surveys by means of • 53,000 face-to-face interviews • 16,000 self-completion questionaries’ (45% response rate) • There were 5 roadside and 12 recreation survey site points in the Peak District.	12.4 million visitor days
Assessment of Visitor Numbers 1996	Touche Ross (by the PDNPA	PDNP	Build on the data from the APVS (1994). Review AVPS and other available data to reach an independent view of the likely range of visitor numbers in the Peak Park.	A collection of available data (mainly the APVS) grossed up using expansion factors to produce the 22 million visitors estimate.	22-26 million visitor days
Peak District National Park Visitor Survey 1998	PDNP & DDC	PDNP (excluding the northern moorland expanses and peripheral towns such as, Buxton and Leek)	The Study built on the structure of a parallel study for the Objective 5b area of the Peak District.	A total of 4,495 interviews with visitors and residents to and within the Peak District National Park were carried out between May and November 1998. Visitors were shown a map of the Peak District covering the overall greater Peak District. This map was referred to throughout the interview process with virtually all questions based on the tourist behaviour across the entire greater Peak District. No questions were specifically about the area defined as the Peak District National Park.	No estimate (Volume Data)
Peak District National Park Visitor Survey 2005	PDNPA/MFF	PDNP	This survey aims to provide the up to date information required for effective visitor management.	30,000 people interviewed -Indicated levels of spend/ head by different classes of visitors. Survey was not constructed to produce estimates of overall visit volume but to provide data for National Park Management.	No estimate (Volume Data)
England Leisure Visit Survey 2005	DEFRA/NE	National + All National Parks	The aims were to measure the extent of participation in Leisure Visits by the adult population (16+) and estimate the total number of Leisure Visits and their economic value.	The latest data that was produced on a consistent methodology for all the National Parks (on visit volume) It indicated, like the only other survey undertaken to a broadly common methodology across all the National Parks (APVS 1994), that the Peak District and the Lake District were the most visited National Parks in the country, at the time.	10.1 million leisure visits
Peak District National Park Visitor Survey 2014/15	PDNPA	PDNP	The aim of the research was to engage with a representative sample of visitors via interviews in three main landscape character areas in the Peak District National Park(PDNP)	This consisted of quantitative, face-to-face surveys with people who have visited the National Park, conducted by (PDNPA) staff at various locations across the National Park on five different dates between May 2014 and August 2014 and 19 dates between March 2015 – July 2015.	No estimate (Volume Data)
STEAM 2009-2017	PDNPA/DJS	PDNP	Estimates the total tourist numbers as well as the economic impact and employment supported by Tourism.	It is used by many National Parks, East Midlands Tourism, the Peak District and Derbyshire Destination Management Partnership and some of our Constituent Tourism Authorities and provides data at a District level and for the Peak District and Day Visitors: Are regarded as those day visiting whose stay is three hours or more for a non-routine purpose originating outside the local area, whether from home or from a non-resident accommodation outside the object area.	13.24 million Tourist Days