Category Archives: Whitney Knollenberg

Making the Case for State Sponsored Tourism

The tourism industry serves as one of the top employers and tax revenue generators for the Commonwealth of Virginia and many other states. Tourism’s importance has been recognized for many decades and nearly every state has made an effort to … Continue reading

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Lessons in Leadership: Responding to Challenges in Tourism Development

Recent postings on RE: Reflections and Explorations have addressed a wide variety of topics, ranging from Anna Erwin’s discussion of the need to address food security for the world’s impoverished populations to Lyusyena Kirakosyan’s examination of theater as a form … Continue reading

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RE: How do we Move Beyond Rhetoric

In the spirit of this commentary’s title I write to build upon Sarah Lyon-Hill’s discussion of the challenges associated with developing effective partnerships. Sarah proposed that the act of partnering has too often become a rhetorical exercise that does not … Continue reading

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