Community Planning and Development

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Within the career path of tourism and hospitality, there are many concentrations a student can choose such as tourism products and promotion, managing in tourism and hospitality, sustainable tourism and hospitality, tourism development and planning, nature-based tourism and ecotourism, and cultural, arts and heritage tourism. All of these concentrations are different, but they include very similar educational backgrounds. The general amount of schooling required for a career in planning and development is a four-year degree, at least, if not a master’s degree. One specific area of tourism and hospitality that is particularly interesting is community development and planning. Development and planning is a branch of tourism and hospitality, but it is still very broad in terms of careers. A list of different career titles that one can have with a background in community development and planning, or tourism and hospitality, are jobs such as a planning director, neighborhood planner, community development planner, community development director, regional planner, airport planner, building, zoning director, or a community planning and development representative. After doing a good amount of research online, and after meeting with and interviewing Tracy Michaud-Stutzman, a professor at USM in the Geography & Anthropology department and the new Tourism and Hospitality department, I have learned a lot of new information about a career in community development and planning. Tracy Stutzman, before becoming a college professor, held a job in community planning and development. Tracy was as the executive director of a non-profit arts organization in Maine. This job is one that falls under planning and development because it is not only a management position, but the main mission of being the executive director and keeping a non-profit arts or other organization going is that it

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