Tourism and Events Management Program

Sue Slocum, professor in the Tourism and Events Management Program at George Mason University, received a Fulbright Specialist Program award in support of a project on how best to prepare students for jobs in Tajikistan’s tourism economy. She went for a month to advise and collaborate with faculty from the International University of Tourism and Entrepreneurship of Tajikistan.

The tourism and hospitality industries have been confronting increasing challenges related to both the pandemic and climate change, according to experts from George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).