National Extension Tourism Network Scaling UP
Fellow: Stephen Goetz, Pennsylvania State University Roadmap NET Fellow Report:
The purpose of this project is to enhance Extension and Sea Grant's ability to carry out this work by providing strategies to collaborate and share websites, webinars, publications, national conferences, and joint programming. This project invests in the development of the organizational infrastructure for a network of CES and Sea Grant professionals whose research, education and outreach efforts support sustainable tourism development, exp in rural communities. Creating a network model for idea-sharing, innovation, and reducing redundancies. With few exceptions, this team met as a project team two times per month to advance the work on objectives, bringing in Key Informants as needed. At each meeting, decisions were made on how to proceed on each objective and assign action items to team members, who execute them independently before the following meeting. The National Extension Tourism website can be found here. ● Establishment of evaluation working group ● Establishment of DEIA committee ● Overview one-pager completed and being distributed. More one-pagers in progress on workforce development, DEIA, agritourism and additional topics ● Extension tourism registry set up ● NET conference proceedings in progress ● NET branding in process ● NET outreach at upcoming conferences - process established for selecting representative Other NET activities that connect to the NTAE project include presenting the NTAE grant at the NET conference in Georgia, launching the inaugural NET newsletter, and planning for a comprehensive NET publication to be finalized at project’s end. Plans for Quarter 3 include:
● Development and distribution of additional one-pagers ● NET members signing up for the Extension tourism registry ● Publication of NET proceedings ● Progress on NET branding and communications ● Progress on NET Evaluation working group and DEIA committee
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