A tourism decision support system for Western gateway and natural amenity region communities

The economies of gateway and natural amenity regions throughout the Western U.S. depend on the flow of outdoor recreationists and tourists; when these flows are disrupted by hazard events, like wildfires or the COVID-19 pandemic, communities suffer. We are developing predictive models of tourism flows and a decision support system that gateway and natural amenity region communities can use to plan for, and respond to, future hazard events. Link to abstract on nsf.gov