PHILADELPHIA—The National Park Service (NPS) announced it has selected Aramark, the food and hospitality partner for national and state parks and other leading leisure and cultural attractions across the country, as the new concessioner for Yosemite National Park. Under the 15-year contract, scheduled to begin on March 1, 2016, Aramark will manage Yosemite’s hospitality programs encompassing lodging, food and beverage, retail, recreational and transportation services.
“We are honored the National Park Service has selected us to serve as concessioner for Yosemite National Park,” said Bruce W. Fears, President of Aramark’s Leisure division. “The NPS is a longtime and valued partner and we look forward to enhancing Yosemite’s guest experience with a variety of distinctive hospitality and service offerings and educational and interpretive programming. Yosemite is one of America’s most treasured resources and important natural preserves and we are excited to work with the NPS as a steward of the park’s rich history and to help shape its legacy moving forward.”
In 2014, Aramark hosted more than 22 million visitors at the 16 national, state and local parks it serves. With the announcement, Aramark now holds nine contracts with the NPS, including Denali National Park & Preserve and Glacier Bay Park & Preserve, Mesa Verde National Park, Olympic National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Aramark also counts some of the country’s premier day parks and cultural attractions among its leisure portfolio partners, including Gettysburg National Military Park, Historic Philadelphia, Hearst Castle, The Field Museum, Pikes Peak, and the U.S. Mint.
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