Purdue Extension Educators are a critical link bridging Purdue academic campus and Indiana communities. We appreciate your participation in the Rural TRIP!

While other pages of this website provide links to narrative reports and summary information of the data, this and other Extension Educators' pages have links to specific and detailed data, which are currently organized in table format.

We will also add other resources and tools that you may find helpful in promoting rural tourism development, marketing, and education in your community. 

In addition to serving the rural communities in Indiana, the Rural TRIP is also an extension of Purdue tourism and tourism marketing classes. Students enrolled in these classes will conduct tourism development and marketing projects as part of their course assignments. We hope that you will play an active role in matching the students' class projects and the needs of your community.

We will continue to add more data to this site for your use. Eventually you can request us to provide customized reports and tables for your community. 

Currently data on these counties are available:

Anderson/Madison County

• Narrative Report

• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Grant County

• Narrative Report
• Analysis of Business and Pleasure Travelers in Table Format

Greater Lafayette/Tippecanoe County

• Narrative Report
• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Brown County

• Narrative Report
• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Bloomington/Monroe County

• Narrative Report
• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Parke County

• Narrative Report
• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format
• Additional Visitor Expenditure Data in Table Format

Hamilton County

• Narrative Report
• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Jackson County

• Visitor Profile Data in Table Format

Please feel free to contact us anytime. Here is our contact information:

Purdue Tourism & Hospitality Research Center (PT&HRC)

Email: tourism@cfs.purdue.edu

Liping A. Cai, Director of PT&HRC 

Phone: 765 494 4739 

Fax: 765 494 0327 

Email: liping@cfs.purdue.edu

For comments or questions regarding this web contact PTHRC