The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving quickly and impacting tourism in a number of unprecedented ways. While macro-level impacts on the tourism industry are becoming rather obvious, innovative ideas and national data are developing out of this pandemic that can assist small town businesses and tourism economies as we progress and aim for recovery.

Hosted by Michigan State University Extension Tourism Team, this webinar series will include weekly national tourism reports and impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, dive deeper into specialized topics, present a variety of strategies available to small towns, and allow for extensive community discussion

Session 2 in the four part series of COVID-19 Impacts on Tourism and Strategies for Small Town Tourism.

Session Title: What might tourism look like through and after COVID-19?

Presenters Include:

Andy Northrop, MA - Statewide MSU Extension Educator for Community Vitality and Tourism

Dan McCole, PhD. - Associate Professor, Department of Community Sustainability at MSU