2006 NACDEP Conference
February 13-16
San Antonio, Texas
The National Extension Tourism (NET) Design TeamPoster |
Speakers: Beverly Stencel Julie Stewart |
| The National Extension Tourism (NET) Design Team was originally created in 1994 as one of four national Extension focuses under the Communities in Economic Transition Initiative. The NET Design Team membership is comprised of Extension representatives from the Western, North Central, Northeast, and Southern Regions, along with partners from the four Rural Development Centers, the USDA Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The mission of the NET Design Team is to enhance Extension Tourism Programs nationally by providing relevant information, useful resources, and networking opportunities for Extension professionals and others working in the broad area of tourism and recreation. Past accomplishments have included maintaining a list of Extension Tourism Faculty by state and expertise, conducting a national assessment of faculty tourism education preferences, outlining potential tourism education modules for further development, developing and presenting a post-workshop on impact Assessment at the 1998 National Extension Tourism Conference, and developing a National Tourism Publication database through Michigan State University Extension. In addition, the NET Design Team sponsors the National Extension Tourism (NET) Conference, a conference held every two years at various locations throughout the country, with the 2006 NET Conference to be held in Burlington, Vermont, September 10-13, 2006. A future initiative for the team is to develop a National Rural Tourism website. |
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