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Forecasted Total Economic Impacts of the Blue Ridge Parkway, USA 
Total
Total Value 
Employment 
Industry TIO* 
Income 
Added 
(Number 
(MM$) (MM$) 
(MM$) of 
Jobs) 
TOTAL 
5,885.32 3,441.18 
4,922.77 134,261.78 
(*TIO = Total Industrial Output) 
The results of economic effects indicated that about fifty-eight percent of the total value added impacts 
were in the ‘Hotels and Lodging Places’ (17%), ‘Retail Trade’ (14%), ‘Services’ (13%), and ‘Eating and Drinking’ 
(14%) industries. Most (79%) of the employment impacts were in the “Hotels and Lodging Places” (26%), “Eating 
and Drinking” (22%), “Retail Trade” (18%), and “Services” (13%) sectors. Nearly sixty-seven percent of the total 
income impacts were in the “Hotel and Lodging Places” (21%), “Services” (17%), “Retail Trade” (14%) and 
“Eating and Drinking” (13%) sectors. About fifty-eight percent of the total industrial output impacts were in the 
“Hotels and Lodging Places” (17%), “Eating and Drinking” (14%), “Services” (14%), and “Retail Trade” (13%) 
sectors.