Erkkila, Daniel L.2014-11-192014-11-192010Erkkila, Daniel L. (2010) Economic Impacts from the Minnesota Zoo 2009. University of Minnesota Tourism Center. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,https://hdl.handle.net/11299/167910pp 8. The best available data and conservative assumptions were again used to estimate the economic impacts from the Minnesota Zoo for the Twin Cities 7-county Metro Area> Impacts were described for those resulting from the 2009 annual Zoo operations and visitors and from impacts generated by Zoo construction projects that are expected to span across four years.enZooMetro AreaEconomic impactemploymentindustry outputReport