Department of Applied Economics
248b Classroom Office Building
1994 Buford Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108

Phone: 612 625-5248
E-mail: wcg@umn.edu

Ph.D., Resource Development, Michigan State University, 1981
M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Delaware, 1976
B.S., Resource Development, Michigan State University, 1974

William C. Gartner, Ph.D. is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. He previously served as Director of the Tourism Center, Director of the Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism at Utah State University and as Graduate Program Director of the MS in Hospitality and Tourism at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He has a Ph.D. in Resource Development with an emphasis in Resource Economics from Michigan State University.

Dr. Gartner has conducted numerous research studies in the area of tourism image development, seasonal home impacts, tourism marketing, economic impact and destination branding. He is active regionally, nationally and internationally having served as Secretary, Vice President, President and Chairman of the Board of the CenStates chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, on the editorial board of many tourism journals, and as Secretary (1993-1997), Vice President (1998-2000), President (2000-2003) and Chair (2004-2007) for the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.

He has also been involved in international development work including projects in Ghana, Peru, Macau, and Israel. He is the author of numerous tourism articles published in professional journals and two books, Tourism Development: Principles, Processes and Policies, Van Nostrand Reinhold and Trends in Outdoor Recreation, Leisure and Tourism, CABI. He is a Visiting Professor and Honorary Dean of the Faculty of International Tourism at the Macau University of Science and Technology; Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences.