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The CNRED Tourism Team
The UWEX
Community, Natural Resource and Economic Development (CNRED)
Tourism Team serves both internal (educators and applied researchers) and
external (tourism professionals) partners as a valuable resource
for accessing expertise in various tourism topics. The team connects
partners by providing an opportunity to learn from each others' work and
help them avoid “reinventing the wheel” when common tourism requests
arise. Furthermore, future staffing needs will continue to
build on the available research base linking resources with specialist
research efforts.
The team originated in mid-2004; its founding members include:
Dave Berard,
UWEX Sawyer County/LCO
Rob Burke, UWEX Door County
Don Field, UW-Madison, Forest Ecology and Management
Sue Hamilton, Wisconsin Department of Tourism
Marty Havlovic, UWEX Dunn County
Jerry
Hembd, UW-Superior, CCED
Gail
Huycke, UWEX Price County
Shawn Kaskie, UWEX Marinette County
Mike Kornmann,
UWEX Burnette County
Dave Marcouiller, UW-Madison, Urban and Regional Planning
Jeff Prey, WDNR, Bureau of Parks and Recreation
Bill Ryan, UWEX Center for Community Economic Development
Dave Scheler, Wisconsin Department of Tourism
Beverly Stencel, UWEX Washburn County
Team Objectives:
Short-Term/Learning
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Assessment of
current status of Extension and campus-based tourism resources and
programming
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Awareness of how
tourism fits within the broader scope of CNRED teams and programs;
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Development of goals
and objectives for CNRED tourism programs which can serve as sideboards
for capacity building, data collection, and reporting;
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Assist in community
understanding of the role tourism plays within local economic, social, and
environmental structures; and
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Provide guidance to
UWEX in future staffing decisions.
Medium-Term/Action
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Work to enhance
campus-based specialist linkages;
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Development of an
overall plan for long-term tourism capacity (applied research and its
extension to clientele groups) building within Extension;
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Establishment of
strategic partnerships and collaborations that engage broader tourism
partners and stakeholders; and
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Identification and
progress toward filling gaps created by shift in capacity away from
Extension and to the Department of Tourism.
Long-Term/Conditions
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Stable framework and
sanction for objective local Extension tourism programs and initiatives;
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Increased
scholarship and networking in the tourism arena;
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Stable understanding
of educational and applied research roles and relationships related to
tourism;
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Provide
research-based tourism educational programs; and
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Wisconsin citizens
enjoy increased economic benefits from tourism while preserving the
social, civic and environmental qualities of our communities.
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