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All applicants must also provide the following information regarding the event/project: <br />Prior Year Projected <br />A. How many participants and spectators attended 2331 2494 <br />last year's activity and/or will attend this year? <br />Through ticket sales for 3 concerts, and the dance, we know that there were at least 581 attendees at <br />the 2016 Spirit of the West. That number does not include all those attendees (participants and <br />spectators) who did not purchase a concert ticket but rather only attended the many free events that <br />took place over the 3 day festival. With six free downtown concert venues that had 5 different <br />entertainers for five hours over two days, along with the free cowboy gospel concert, free fiddler's <br />contest, free cowboy church concert, free gear/art show, free open mic event, free educational <br />workshops and free children's events we estimate at least another 1500 people attended those free <br />events. Ticket sales also does not include all the entertainers and their families, fiddle contest <br />contestants and their families, and many out of county volunteers who spent several days in the area. <br />B. How many days did/will your event occur? <br />4 <br />C. How many room nights were and /or will be booked 165* 177 <br />as a result of your project/event? <br />(You must provide a verifiable source of information as <br />evidence for your response to item C. Failure to do so will disqualify your application. J <br />* Hotel information was received from Hampton Inn with 2 room night stays and Quality Inn with 16 <br />room night stays for a total of 18 confirmed room night stays. The Kittitas Valley Event Center confirmed <br />15 overnight camping stays. Due to our limited information regarding confirmed room night stays from <br />hotels/motels in the area during the weekend of the Spirit of the West, our true total number of room <br />nights is unavailable and limited to only 33 confirmed overnight stays. From the zip code information we <br />obtained from our ticket sales we estimate that about 27.5% of the attendees who purchased <br />concert/dance tickets were from within Kittitas County, 72.5% were from out of county with 57% of that <br />total attending from more than 50 miles away. If we take those ticketed attendees from greater than 50 <br />miles away which is 57% of 581 with 2 people per room we get about 165 overnight stays for 2016. This <br />would include the 15 confirmed overnight camping stays. We are looking for an increase in overnight <br />stays in 2017 due to the added Thursday evening western clothing fashion show and from changing and <br />improved marketing targeted areas. <br />