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Plymouth State University
MSC 11
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Mark Okrant
Professor of Geography and Tourism Development
Director of Institute of New Hampshire Studies
Graduate Program Advisor for Environmental Science and Policy
Office phone number: (603) 535-2364
e-mail: mokrant@plymouth.edu
Homepage: oz.plymouth.edu/~mokrant
Degrees and Education
- Ed.D., Oklahoma State University
- M.S., Southern Connecticut State College
- B.S., Southern Connecticut State College
Profile
Mark J. Okrant is professor of geography and tourism development, 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 RoadA Last Resort and I Knew You When, the first two books in Okrant's Kary Turnell Mystery Series, are set in historic resort hotels. provides a retrospective on the American motel industry.
To view Mark Okrant's books, visit the Oak Manor Publishing Web site.
