Daniel Fesenmaier

Professor & Director for the National Lab for Tourism and eCommerce
1700 N. Broad Street
Suite 201-B
215.204.5611
drfez@temple.edu

Dr. Daniel Fesenmaier is the Professor and Director of the National Laboratory for Tourism and eCommerce for the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University. As Director of the National Laboratory for Tourism & eCommerce, Dr. Fesenmaier is responsible for directing travel and tourism research projects and providing consulting services to national, state, region and local tourism organizations. Over the past 25 years, he has been involved in tourism marketing and research projects for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Texas as well as destination marketing organizations in these states and in Mississippi, New York and Texas. He has also served as a consultant to tourism projects in Australia, Canada, Ghana and South Korea.

Dr. Fesenmaier is author of over 150 articles dealing with tourism marketing, advertising evaluation and information technology. He has co-authored a monograph titled Assessing and Developing Tourism Resources, co-edited 5 books (Recreation Planning and Management, Communication Systems in Tourism Marketing, Recent Advances in Tourism Research Methodology, Information and Communication Technologies 2000, Information and Communication Technologies 2001), and is co-founding editor of an international journal titled Tourism Analysis.

Dr. Fesenmaier received his Ph. D. in geography from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He has taught at the University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M University and Indiana University and the University of Illinois before coming to Temple University and has received a number of awards for his teaching and research. In particular, he been recognized twice for excellence in teaching through the “Incomplete List of Instructors Rated as Excellent by Their Students,” University of Illinois and for excellence in research through the King J. McCristal Outstanding Scholars Award, University of Illinois and receiving the Best Conference Paper Award at ENTER2003 and ENTER2004 and at the 8th Annual Graduate Students Conference in Hospitality and Tourism.