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Welcome to the Center for Sustainable Tourism


Welcome to the Center for Sustainable Tourism. We are dedicated to promoting sustainable tourism throughout our region and across North Carolina and the nation through innovation in graduate education, leadership development, community consultation, and collaborative research. Devoted to implementing sustainable practices in business operations, public policies, and personal travel behaviors, the Center offers solutions to challenges facing the tourism industry and destination communities as they balance economic viability with socio-cultural and environmental enhancement and equity.

 

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Current Activities

 

The Center is pleased to welcome three new staff members to the team: Huili Hao, our new Research Director who will be providing direction for the Center's applied and academic research activities; Dr. Cynthia Deale, Western Regional Representative, who will be facilitating outreach efforts in the western region of the state; and Alex Naar, Coordinator, Sustainable Tourism Initiatives, who is working jointly with the Center, the ECU Office of Economic Development, and the North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development on statewide sustainable tourism activities.

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The Renewable Energy in Tourism Initiative (RETI), a joint effort of the Center, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the University of Colorado at Boulder's Energy Initiative, has established a new website on which are posted best practices in energy use for the following tourism sectors—accommodations, airlines, cruise lines, public lands, ski resorts and tour operators.  Please visit www.renewabletourism.org to participate in the public comment phase.

 

Scott Curtis

Featuring Our Faculty: Scott Curtis

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Scott Curtis, is interested in the interrelationship between climate variability and tourism. As assistant director of the Center for Natural Hazards Research, he promotes and participates in research and outreach with the goal of reducing the harm caused by natural and human forces to life, business and the environment.

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