Extension Tourism: Impact and Opportunities of Land- and Sea-Grant Programming Across U.S. Regions

Publication Description

The National Extension Tourism Design Team and Regional Rural Development Centers carried out a national survey process from 2017 to 2019 to catalog current tourism and recreation programming being conducted by U.S. Extension professionals. The findings are summarized in this report – Extension Tourism: Impact and Opportunities of Land- and Sea-Grant Programming Across U.S. Regions – which:

documents the distribution, depth, and breadth of tourism and outdoor recreation programming offered by the Land- and Sea Grant Extension services;
demonstrates the regional impacts of this programming; and,
highlights opportunities for expanding this programming nationally.

This work was supported in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDA or those of other funders.

This report was published in 2021, and also appears on the Extension Tourism website.

Land-Grant Institution

National Extension Tourism and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

Author(s) (NAME, EMAIL, INSTITUTION)

Author

Doug Arbogast, Doug.Arbogast@mail.wvu.edu, West Virginia University Extension

Kristen Devlin, krd111@psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University (The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development)

Jason Scott Entsminger, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

Stephan Goetz, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

Matt Ulmer, Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Xinyi (Lisa) Qian, University of Minnesota

Dolan Eversole, University of Hawaii Sea Grant

Miles Phillips, Oregon Sea Grant

Jake Powell, Utah State University

Elizabeth Rohring, NOAA Sea Grant

Publication Audience

Cooperative Extension

Publication Type

Research Report

Publication Date

October 18th, 2024