State Are there tourism programs that are needed in your state/region that you are unable to offer but wish you could?
CO More technical assistance to operators
ID More Agritourism, wine trails, art trails
ID More staff personnel to help deliver programming (I am a single educator county and resource scarce).
UT Yes. Utah has a need for programs that focus on integrating tourism and outdoor recreation into the economic development plans and programs of rural counties and communities. We have a very diverse state geographically, politically, and economically. The state is served by one statewide Extension specialist, so developing programs that meet the needs of all the state’s tourism interests is difficult. Programs focused on the needs and unique context of rural counties and communities are needed.
HI
Additional capacity for economic assessment and destination management.
OR More local economic impact studies, demonstration/educational tours, and most importantly An Extension Sustainable Tourism Research and Demonstration Center where we design and test for highest paying outdoor recreation experiences to help public and private landowners achieve economic sustainability which allows management of the environmental and social resources
NV Working in developing outdoor recreation specifically on public lands.
CA Yes. We have regions like the coasts and the Sierras that could use a tourism program.
MT I am working on tourism in Montana. I serve on the Governor’s Tourism Advisory Committee. I work with agriculture producers that are interested in agri-tourism. MSU does not have a specific tourism program and this is not my official role in extension. I am working with a work group that includes the MT Department of Agriculture and the MT Dept of Commerce focusing on tourism. AZ While I would like to see more faculty/staff involved in tourism-related programming, there isn’t a formal tourism Extension program or even a Community Development Extension program. The closest that we have at University of Arizona is our team (Extension Regional Economic Analysis Program). Our work has aspects of outdoor recreation, and tourism more broadly, but it is a smaller component of our research. Yes- there has been considerable demand from the Arizona Office of Tourism and local communities for visitor intercept surveys. With such a large state and close to zero Extension agents with community development background, we have not had the capacity to do this type of work. That said, if another entity conducted the visitor intercept survey, we have offered to partner with them to conduct economic impact analyses.
WA I see a need for workforce development training to support tourism.
AK Marketing/Business management courses would be useful.
21 Extension Tourism: Impact and Opportunities of Land- and Sea-Grant Programming
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