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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, and is the author of four
books. Judson’s 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
and I Knew You When, the first
two books in Okrant’s Kary Turnell Mystery Series, are set in
historic resort hotels.
To view Mark Okrant’s books, go to
www.markokrant.com/
TEL 603.535.2364
FAX 603.536.4983
E-mail: mokrant@plymouth.edu
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