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Prior Year* <br />2,494 <br />Projected* <br />2,618 <br />How many days did/will your event occur? <br />Prior Year* <br />4 <br />Projected* <br />4 <br />-------~-- <br />How many paid overnight stays were and/or will be booked as a result of your <br />project/event? <br />Prior Year* <br />177 <br />Projected* <br />185 <br />Paid Overnights' Data Support <br />Explain how the room nights data above from the prior year was collected and how the projection for the next year is <br />derived. (For example, if there was a survey conducted for the prior year, explain the methodology. For the projections, <br />what are they based upon and how is that basis justified?) <br />Prior Year Paid <br />Overnight's Stay <br />Response* <br />Prior Year Paid <br />Overnight Stay Data <br />Through ticket sales for 3 concerts, and the dance, we know that there were at <br />least 581 attendees at the 2017 Spirit of the West. That number does not include <br />all those attendees (participants and spectators) who did not purchase a concert <br />ticket but rather only attended the many free events that took place over the 3 day <br />festival. With six free downtown concert venues that had 5 different entertainers for <br />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 <br />educational workshops, and free children's events we estimate at least another <br />1500 people attended those free events. Ticket sales also does not include all the <br />entertainers and their families, fiddle contest contestants ant their families, and <br />many out of country volunteers who spent several days in the area. <br />Hotel information was received from Hampton Inn with 2 room night stays and <br />Quality Inn with 16 room night stays for a total of 18 confirmed room night stays. <br />The Kittitas Valley Event Center confirmed 15 overnight camping stays. Due to our <br />limited information regarding room night stays from hotels/motels in the area during <br />the weekend of the Spirit of the West, our true total number of overnight stays is <br />unavailable and limited to only 33 confirmed. From the zip code information we <br />obtained from our ticket sales we estimate that about 27.5% of the attendees were <br />from within Kittitas County, 72.5% were from out of country with 57% of that total <br />attending from more than 50 miles away. If we take those ticketed attendees from <br />greater than 50 miles away which is 57% of 581 with 2 people per room we get <br />about 165 overnight stays for 2017. This would include the 15 confirmed overnight <br />camping stays. <br />2500 character linit. <br />17 addition to field above. you rray upload the evidence to support the prior years' room'night inforrration. <br />You rray upload up to three single pages (US Letter), of inforrration. W you a single nrulti-page docurrent, only the first <br />three pages will be considered. The following forrrnts, will be accepted: JR'.3, FCF or TIFF <br />Application Questions: Part 5 <br />81 Funding <br />Does your organization have, or have you applied for, grant funding from other sources? If not, why not? If yes, please <br />list the funding you have for the project, including any volunteer and in-kind sources in Question 91 Project Budget <br />Overview.