How many existing motels, hotels & RV Parks are operating in the state
of Colorado and of all of these, in percentage form, how many have a
cafe, restaurant or coffee shop on the premises? Answer needed with
source documentation for legal purposes. |
Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
13 Aug 2003 10:58 PDT
Hello bearadise -
I've been working on your question now since yesterday, and I'd like
to let you know where we're at.
I've contacted several associations, organizations, and the like,
along with doing significant searching on my own. If you were
looking for estimates, I would say it would be possible to get this
information on the net through a lot of digging. The data would be
imprecise and unverified. However, since it looks like you're seeking
a precise breakdown, it's going to have to be from a fee-based
service, since this information costs research firms money to produce.
I've located a source that has the total number of hotels and motels
in Colorado along with a percentage of those having food and beverage
facilities. Negotiating with the firm, they have agreed to $100 for
this information.
As for RV Parks, I have only been able to find a free directory online
that has "meals served" and "restaurant" criteria. It does not
include "state-run" parks, and the list may be incomplete. No RV park
association I've talked to has heard of such information.
I would be willing to work with you in terms of re-adjusting your fee
for this question, since it would cost additional money to acquire the
hotel/motel information, and the RV information is not really
available in a "statistically precise" format as far as I can tell.
Please let me know how you'd like to proceed.
Thanks,
jbf777-ga
GA Researcher
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Clarification of Question by
bearadise-ga
on
14 Aug 2003 06:28 PDT
Please proceed with research and advise as to rate adjustment. We
really need this information. As for RV Parks, I believe an estimate
in this area will do fine. Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
14 Aug 2003 07:09 PDT
I think the optimum thing to do here is for you to decrease the list
price of this question to $120, and then I would provide you the phone
number of the firm to get this information directly from them. I will
supplement the contact information with the RV park information. Will
this work?
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Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
14 Aug 2003 07:10 PDT
Actually, you can make that $100.
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Clarification of Question by
bearadise-ga
on
14 Aug 2003 17:02 PDT
List price has been changed, we will await your results for the RV
Park search and the phone number for the organization that can provide
the hotel/motel information. Thank you.
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Hello bearadise -
Please note: I don't consider this answer finished until you're
satisfied with it. If you choose to rate this answer, please do so
after asking for any necessary clarification or information. Thanks
for your understanding.
For hotel/motel information, you'll want to contact:
Brian Ferguson at Smith Travel Research: (615) 824-8664
You'll want to remind him that he received a call from "Jordan" from
Google Answers a few days ago, and that he quoted a $100 fee to
perform a database query for the information you're looking for.
Smith Travel Research is a recognized research firm that specializes
in lodging statistics. Additional contact information:
Smith Travel Research
735 East Main St
Hendersonville, TN 37075
Fax: (615) 824-3848
Web: http://www.smithtravelresearch.com
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The RV Park information comes from:
Colorado Directory
http://www.coloradodirectory.com/RV/rvparks.html
Performing two separate searches, each with "Meals Served" and
"Restaurant" respectively, the following data was arrived at:
Of 177 parks listed, 40 (22.59%) are denoted as "serving meals." All
but one are denoted as having either a restaurant on the premises or
one near by.
Search strategy:
Used several search terms along the lines of:
"hotel statistics"
colorado hotel statistics
"RV parks OR campgrounds" statistics
Contacted various organizations such as:
American Lodging Association
Colorado Hotel and Motel Association
American Hotel Association
Motorhome America Club
Colorado Association of Campgrounds Cabins and Lodges
Thank you,
jbf777-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
bearadise-ga
on
18 Aug 2003 07:11 PDT
Hi Jordan,
Thank you for the info on the research firm, we'll follow that up
immediately. The only thing with the RV Park answer that's not really
satisfying is that we ourselves are listed with Colorado Directory, a
listing that cost me $1K for a year. The parks listed there are select
in that everyone of them pays nearly what I did to be listed, alot of
RV Parks in Colorado do not participate in their listings, obviously
because of cost factor. I know there are more than 177 RV Parks in
Colorado. Could we perhaps expand on that search?
Kathryn
Bearadise
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Clarification of Answer by
jbf777-ga
on
18 Aug 2003 09:46 PDT
Kathryn -
I checked with numerous sources on that. It would be relatively easy
to find a list of the total number of RV parks in Colorado. What's
extremely difficult to find is which ones have eating facilities. I
will give another go at it. If I can't find an answer, I can remove
my current answer to this question, and you can lower the list price
again.
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Request for Answer Clarification by
bearadise-ga
on
19 Aug 2003 13:51 PDT
Thank you Jordan! Keep me posted!
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Clarification of Answer by
jbf777-ga
on
19 Aug 2003 14:31 PDT
Bearadise -
I did some more extensive searching, and I've been able to uncover one
piece of a data that might be able to give you an estimated snapshot.
The National Association of RV Parks does a National Operations and
Economics survey. Included in this survey are findings on the
percentage of parks nationwide that have food service. This number is
20%. According to the organization, there are about 8,500 commercial,
non-government-owned parks nationwide.
Unfortunately, I don't see any percentage data specific to Colorado.
However, if you apply this general percentage to the number of
non-government owned parks in Colorado, you might be able to get a a
ballpark picture of the situation.
According to the Colorado Campground and Loding Owners Association,
there are close to 275 non-government RV parks in Colorado. Applying
the national average to this number will give you about 55 parks.
Please let me know if this is or isn't of help.
Thanks,
Jordan
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Request for Answer Clarification by
bearadise-ga
on
23 Aug 2003 06:30 PDT
Hi Jordan,
Sorry for the delay in response. We've had power outage problems on
this end.
The answer was not all I hoped for, not your fault of course, but if
it's all that is available, than it will have to do. We contacted
Smith Travel and gotten their response already as well. Hopefully
this will all help our cause in some fashion. I'd like to thank you
very much for all your effort.
Kathryn
Bearadise
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Clarification of Answer by
jbf777-ga
on
23 Aug 2003 15:34 PDT
Kathryn -
No problem on the delay. You're quite welcome.
Yes, I spent quite a bit of time on this. I really don't think data
specific to Colorado is out there. National data seems to be as close
as it gets. As one RV association representative said to me, it's the
first time anyone has asked her such a thing. :)
Please let me know how I can be of further help.
Jordan
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