Social Science Department Faculty

About Professor Okrant 

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, visit the Oak Manor Publishing Web site.

Related Links

• Current New Hampshire Tourism Data
• Travel and Tourism Research Association