Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Program Has Made Changes in Several Areas But Challenges Remain written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The 1998 Concessions Management Improvement Act governs concessions services at national parks. In 2016, the Park Service managed 488 concessions contracts, and such contracts generated about $1.4 billion in gross revenues in the prior year. Under these contracts, companies and individuals operate businesses in parks, including lodges, restaurants, and recreational services. GAO was asked to review the concessions program. This report examines (1) how the concessions program has changed since GAO's 2000 report and (2) any ongoing challenges in the concessions program. To conduct this work, GAO examined Park Service policy, guidance, and relevant laws and regulations; analyzed Park Service data on concessions contracts; interviewed Park Service staff at headquarters, all seven regions, and 20 park units, selected for size of concessions program and park type, among other things; and interviewed concessioners and stakeholders, such as consultants familiar with the concessions program. "

Download or read book Park Service Agency is Not Meeting Its Structural Fire Safety Responsibilities written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Management written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eating in US National Parks written by Kathleen LeBesco and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, and why people eat in national parks and how this has changed over the last century. National parks are enjoying unprecedented popularity, and they are especially popular sites for the expression of cosmopolitanism, an ideological outlook descended from the Romantics on whose vision the parks were originally founded. The book explores the constructed foodscape within US national parks, situating the romantic consumption ethos within the context of sociological work on distinction, culinary tourism, and culinary capital. It analyzes and problematizes elements of cosmopolitan taste and desire, examining food tourism in wilderness spaces that satisfies cosmopolitan hunger for authenticity and a certain type of self-making. Weaving together strands of research that have not been previously integrated, the book gleans meaning from concessions menus and park restaurant web pages and employs audience analysis to take stock of park restaurant visitors’ contributions to restaurant review websites, as well as to understand how they represent their park eating experiences on social media. The book examines how satisfying cosmopolitan tastes in the parks creates profit for corporate concessioners, but also may produce bioregionalist successes and a recentering of Indigenous foodways. It concludes by exploring inroads to a better food experience in the parks, involving food products and processes that are regionally/locally specific, where tourists witness and participate in food production and enjoy commensality, but that are also non-extractive and show care for the environment and the people who inhabit it. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food studies, tourism and hospitality, sociology of culture, parks and recreation, American studies, and environmental studies. The book will also be of interest to parks and recreation decision makers, sustainable tourism leaders, and hospitality managers.

Download or read book Park Service written by Barry T. Hill and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concessioners play a significant role in providing services to many of the over 270 million visitors to the National Park Service (NPS) system each year. Concessioners are private businesses that operate under contracts with the NPS to provide facilities and services, such as lodging, food, merchandising, marinas, and various guided services. In Aug. 1998, it was reported that the condition of lodging facilities varied considerably from park to park and was at times quite poor. Concerned about these varying conditions, this report identifies: factors affecting the condition of lodging facilities in the NPS system: and options to addresses these factors. Photos.

Download or read book Management Policies written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Program written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Park Service concessions program: hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, to review the National Park Service concessions program, including implementation of the National Park Service Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998, April 8, 2004.

Download or read book National Park Service written by Victor S. Rezendes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The status of the National Park Service Concessions Management Program and implementing regulations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concessions Policy of the National Park Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Need to Address Management Problems that Plague the Concessions Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Park Service s Funding Needs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and published by National Center for Education Statistics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education Department Publication NCES 2005-074. 33rd edition. Prepared by William J. Hussar, et al. Provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2013." Includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education at the national level. Contains projections for enrollment, graduates, classroom teachers, and expenditures to the year 2014. Also includes projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and high school graduates to the year 2014 at the State level.

Download or read book Better Management of National Park Concessions Can Improve Services Provided to the Public written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Policy Reform Act of 1993 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Park Concessions Measures written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book America s National Park System written by Lary M. Dilsaver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.

Download or read book National Park Service Concessions Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: