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Mark J. Okrant is professor of
tourism management and director of the Institute for New Hampshire Studies
at Plymouth State University.
He has coordinated tourism research for the State of New
Hampshire since 1990, conducted tourism assessments in Aleut
and Yupik communities in Alaska, and has
presented tourism marketing and planning workshops in Alaska,
Canada and Romania.
Okrant was nominated to the International Association of Scientific Experts
in Tourism, is past president of the Travel and Tourism Research
Association, and past president of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley
Geographical Society. He was the 1998 recipient of the Association of
American Geographers’ John
Rooney Award, for excellence in applied tourism research, the 2009 Lifetime
Achievement Award from the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical
Society, and is the author of five books. Judson' Island, a murder mystery set along the Maine
coast, is used as a reader in university tourism planning courses. Sleeping
Alongside the Road provides a retrospective on the American motel
industry. A Last Resort, I
Knew You When, and An Icy Reception, the first three books in
Okrant's Kary
Turnell Mystery Series, are set in historic resort properties.
To
view Mark Okrant's books, go
to
www.markokrant.com/ or www.beechriverbooks.com
To use
the new Tourism Marketing Toolkit for small properties, go to
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~mokrant/toolkit
TEL 603.535.2364
FAX 603.536.4983
E-mail: mokrant@plymouth.edu
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The author, Mark Okrant
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