Susan Slocum

Dr. Susan L. Slocum specializes in sustainable economic development through tourism and policy implementation at the regional and national level.  Working with communities to enhance backward linkages between tourism and traditional industries, Dr. Slocum has worked with rural communities in the United States, the UK, Belarus, and with indigenous populations in emerging tourism destinations in Tanzania.  In particular, she is interested in balancing policy development and integration to provide a more bottom-up form of planning within tourism destinations and has approached sustainable tourism from a contemporary view which includes the addition of institutional reform and social justice.  Dr. Slocum has worked at the University of Bedfordshire and at Utah State University.

Research Interests

• Sustainable Tourism Development and Policy
• Community-based Destination Branding/Marketing Development and Poverty Reduction
• Development and Policy
• Rural Planning
• Sustainable Agricultural Development Tourism/Agritourism
• Food

Research and Awards

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar (2019 - 2020)

Recent Publications

• Slocum, S.L. (2023). Inclusion in Tourism: Understanding Institutional Discrimination and Bias (Ed.). London, Routledge.
• Slocum, S.L., Wiltshire, P., and Read, J. (2022). Tourism Transformations in Protected Area Gateway Communities (Eds.). Wallingford, UK, CABI.
• Ingram, L.J., Tarkó, K., & Slocum, S.L. (2022).  Women, leisure and tourism: Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience (Eds.). Wallingford, UK, CABI.
• Ingram, L., Slocum, S.L., & Cavaliere, C.T. (2020). Neolocalism and Tourism: Understanding a Global Movement (Eds.). Oxford, UK, Goodfellow Publishers.
• Slocum, S.L., Aidoo, A., & McMahon, K. (2020). The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management. London, Routledge.
• Slocum, S.L. & Klitsounova, V. (2020).  Tourism Development in Post-Soviet Nations: From Communism to Capitalism (Eds.). Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan.
• Slocum, S.L. & Curtis, K (2018). Food and Agricultural Tourism: Theory and best practice. London,Routledge.
• Slocum, S.L., Kline, C. & Cavaliere, C.T. (2017). Craft Beverages and Tourism, Volume 2: Environmental, Societal, and Marketing Implications (Eds.), Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan.
• Kline, C., Slocum, S.L. & Cavaliere, C.T. (2017). Craft Beverages and Tourism, Volume 1: The Rise of Breweries and Distilleries in the United States (Eds.), Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan.
• Slocum, S.L. & Kline, C. (2017). Linking Urban and Rural Tourism: Strategies in Sustainability (Eds.), Wallingford, UK, CABI.
• Curtis, K., Slocum, S.L. & Allen, K. (2016). Farm and Food Tourism: Exploring Opportunities. Utah State University Extension Curriculum, Agribusiness 12-10-15.
• Slocum, S.L., Kline, C., & Holden, A. (2015). Scientific Tourism: Researchers as Travellers (Eds.), London, Routledge.