Extension Tourism: Impact and Opportunities

Southern region faculty identified key challenges and obstacles preventing current and future engagement in tourism related Extension program and service offerings. Key limitations included: lack of staff, limited faculty expertise, lack of awareness of existing

Extension resources from the public, and lack of internal and regional Extension tourism programmatic leadership. Matt Ulmer - Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Would you like to have more faculty or staff involved in developing and/ or delivering tourism related programs through Extension?

Do you have faculty/staff that are involved in developing and/ or delivering tourism related programs through Extension?

What percentage of time are

each of these faculty/staff able to allocate to tourism related work?

State

University

Texas

Texas A & M University

yes yes

0-10% 21-30% 0-10% 11-20% 11-20% 11-20% 21-30% 0-10% 21-30% 91-100%

yes yes

Louisiana

LSU AgCenter

University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension

Arkansas

yes

yes

Auburn University Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Alabama

yes

yes

Tennessee

University of Tennessee

yes

yes

North Carolina State University

North Carolina

yes

yes

South Carolina Clemson University

yes

0-10%

yes

Virginia Tech/Virginia Cooperative Extension University of Georgia Florida A&M University

Virginia

yes

0-10%

yes

Georgia Florida

yes yes yes

21-30% 21-30% 51-60% 21-30% 51-60% 61-70%

yes yes

Mississippi

Mississippi State

no

Kentucky

University of Kentucky

yes

no

Georgia Alabama

Fort Valley State University Alabama A&M University

no no no no no no

yes yes yes yes yes yes

Texas

Prairie View A&M

Oklahoma Oklahoma

Oklahoma State University

Langston University

US Virgin Islands University of the Virgin Islands

Multiple percentages indicate multiple faculty/staff.

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