State
What challenges do you face in being able to provide services to support tourism in your state? Time and staff resources. Lack of staff with proper expertise to develop and deliver such programs. Time challenges and lack of support from the state level. One person right now is dedicated to doing this work and he is stretched thin. The County Extension Coordinators pick up the slack and do what we can at our county level.
AL
FL
Human Capital and Technical Expertise
Not a challenge per se but the Virginia Department of Tourism provides leadership to most of the topics you listed in this area. Without faculty or staff dedicated to tourism, most of our efforts are limited to communities/ regions in which we are working, providing fairly general assistance, and linking people to other resources. The main challenge we have right now is that folks don’t know who we are and when they find out they don’t know why we are. Hoping to help solidify some programs and partnerships to appease that but ask me again in a year :).
VA
AR
NC
MS OK
Funding
Lack of program leadership. Figuring out the right methods to use to encourage it. FTEs, partners, financial resources. Salary for a faculty extension specialist Labor to conduct data collection and data analyses, and a communication channel that informs tourism stakeholders of our applied research efforts I would not say that there is a challenge in providing support, because the Georgia Department of Economic Development has a fully staffed team dedicated to this effort in our state.
TX
GA
GA
Virgin Islands Financial resources to support staff salaries
17 Extension Tourism: Impact and Opportunities of Land- and Sea-Grant Programming
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