Demand Curve – National Landmark
A simple demand curve for a tourist landmark / POI with national significance. These are expected to be a target of travel from longer distances within a nation/state and a high number of tourists will be visiting from the local area as people will be expected to stay over night.
Demand is highly scaled towards local tourism (people are staying overnight) with a long tail of people willing to travel huge distances.
These curves are NOT based on any hard numbers, but it’s rather a guesstimate of sorts.
Between 2000 and 5000 people per day, or just around 730k to 1.8M visitors per year.
This fits quite a few of the major national tourist attractions, e.g.:
- Stonehenge (UK): 1.3M per year
- Imperial War Museum (London, UK): 840k per year
- Arc de Triomphe (Paris): 1.5M per year
- Mont St. Michel (France): 1M per year
These are set-up to be slightly offset to each other to simulate people staying at the site and leaving after a while:
- Monday – Friday: Demand starts picking up around 06:00/07:00 and peaks at 80% around 13:00. This accounts for lower demand during work days as locals will be at work whileas local/regional/national tourists will pad out numbers.
- Saturday/Sunday: Demand is scaled up to 100% and starts a bit earlier and ends a bit later. People want to hang out around the landmark even though it might be closed.
Aimed to simulate regional/national demand with large focus on local tourists (as many people might be multi-day tourists)
- 0 to 95 km: 100% demand until 20 km (wider city) and falling down to 30% for wider region.
- 100 to 480 km: Slowly goes down to 10% – some people might choose to travel from nearby cities and regions.
- 500 to 2,400 km: Slowly goes to 0% – a small number of people might choose to travel across the country/internationally for just this landmark.
- 2,500 to 9,500 km: 0%
- 10,000 to 20,000 km: 0%
Unique id of this curve: vinascz.demand.national-landmark
- 5000+ people per day (1.8M+ per year): International landmark
- 500 – 2000 people per day (180k to 730k per year): Regional landmark
- under 500 people per day (under 180k per year): Local landmark
