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Visitor Services reports small dip in visitors; summer staffing and kiosk traffic highlighted
Summary
Nantucket visitor services staff reported summer visitation metrics, kiosk staffing changes and cultural grants during the committee’s Oct. 14 meeting; the committee approved June 12 minutes and adjourned by voice vote.
Acting visitor services coordinator Shanta Bloise Murphy reported to the Visitor Services Advisory Committee on Oct. 14 that July–September visitor activity produced roughly 495,700 unique visitor sessions and about 2,000,000 total visits to the island during that period.
“Over those three months, we enjoyed 495,700 unique visitors, which resulted in 2,000,000 visits to the island,” Murphy said, adding that average visits per visitor in the data set were about 4.07 and that seasonal residents are included in those figures. She told the committee that visitor counts showed a small decrease of 0.5% from the prior year, a 1.4% decline from two…
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