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South Carolina's Tourism Higher Education Players. "South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for a mental asylum."
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1. Agritourism Research: The Clemson Campus Connection Dr. William C. Norman
Associate Professor
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
wnorman@clemson.edu
2. South Carolina’s Tourism Higher Education Players
"South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for a mental asylum."
— James Pettigrew
But we have five tourism programs and six tourism research centers!
3. Clemson University
Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management (PRTM):
Dr. Sheila Backman (back@clemson.edu)
Dr, Greg Ramshaw (gramsha@clemson.edu)
PSA:
Dr. Ken Backman (frank@clemson.edu)
Dr. Bill Norman (wnorman@clemson.edu)
Clemson International Institute for Tourism Research & Development
Dr. Bob Brookover (bob@clemson.edu)
Ms. Laurie Jodice (jodicel@clemson.edu)
4. University of South Carolina
School of Hotel, Restaurant, & Tourism Management
International Tourism Research Institute
Dr. Richard Harrill (rharrill@mailbox.sc.edu)
Sloan Foundation Travel & Tourism Industry Center
Dr. Robert Li (robertli@mailbox,sc.edu)
5. College of Charleston
Department of Hospitality and Tourism
Dr. Steve Litvin (litvins@cofc.edu)
Dr. Wayne Smith (smithww@cofc.edu)
Dr. John Crotts (crottsj@cofc.edu)
Office of Tourism Analysis
Dr. Bing Pan (bpan@cofc.edu)
6. Coastal Carolina University
E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration
Resort Tourism Management and
Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism
Dr. Taylor Damonte (tdamonte@clemson.edu)
BB&T Center for Economic and Community Development
Mr. Gary Loftus (gloftus@coastal.edu)
Dr. Donald Schunk (dschunk@coastal.edu)
7. University of South Carolina Beaufort (Bluffton Campus)
Hospitality Management Program
Dr. Charles Calvert (calvert@uscb.edu)
LowCountry and Resort Islands Tourism Institute
Dr. John Salazar (salazar@uscb.edu)
8. Clemson University Food & Tourism Initiatives
Teaching
Research
Service
9. Teaching Culinary Tourism Creative Inquiry Team
A collaboration between PRTM and Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Marge Condrasky (mcondra@clemson.edu)
Travel and tourism undergraduate concentration (n=100)
Travel and tourism graduate program (MS, MPRTM, Ph.D.)
10. Research Thoroughbred Country Tourist Conversion and Destination Branding Study
Lower Savannah Council of Governments
Sustainable Tourism Destination Project for Floyd and Patrick Counties in Southwestern Virginia
National Park Service and Blue Ridge Heritage Incorporated
Partnered with Clemson’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Virginia Tech
11. Research: Collaborative
College of Health, Education and Human Development Tourism and Community Development Collaborative Team
Collaboration between:
PRTM
Department of Applied Economics and Statistics
Clemson International Institute for Tourism Research and Development
Clemson Institute for Economic and Community Development
12. Research: Collaborative Projects Building Sustainable Community-Based Economic Development and Management Linkages Between Traditional Coastal-Dependent Business and SC’s Recreation and Tourism Industry
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
Rural Development RBEG Grant - Pee Dee Agritourism Initiative
Blake Lanford
USDA
Development of an Action Plan to Increase the Sustainable and Regionally Appropriate Use of Natural and Historic Resources in Union County, South Carolina
U.S. Forest Service
13. Service Foodways and Byways: The Role of Food in Rural Tourism Marketing, Product Develop-ment and Supply Chain Management
My PSA Project
Research builds on previous PSA project on shrimp and tourism research.
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
Pilot test of Food Importance Scale (FAS) based on the Sajna Shenoy’s (2005) dissertation “Food Tourism and the Culinary Tourist”
Web and mail survey of visitors (on-going) utilizing FIS
14. Reward System Keys to working with faculty in the current fiscal climate:
Generates extramural funding with overhead
Funds faculty salary and graduate student assistantships
Opportunity for dissertations, thesis and projects
Provides learning experiences for undergraduates
Class projects
Internships
Results in peer reviewed publications and conference presentations
Media friendly
15. Thank You
Questions?