Megan Epler Wood

Megan Epler Wood

Megan Epler Wood is the Man­aging Dir­ect­or of the Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Asset Man­age­ment Pro­gram (STAMP) at Cor­nell University’s Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Glob­al Enter­prise at the SC John­son Col­lege of Busi­ness. She pre­vi­ously led courses and research at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity from 2010 – 2021.

Ms Epler Wood is the lead lec­turer for a 40-hour self-paced Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Des­tin­a­tion Man­age­ment eCo­r­nell course for busi­ness lead­ers, urb­an plan­ners, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment pro­fes­sion­als, des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment organ­isa­tions, and muni­cip­al gov­ern­ment employees.

Megan led the research and writ­ing for the ground-break­ing 2019 report, Des­tin­a­tions at Risk: The Invis­ible Bur­den of Tour­ism, which “helped redefine how the tour­ism eco­nomy can bet­ter meet sus­tain­ab­il­ity require­ments on a region­al level while cov­er­ing loc­al costs”.  Her 2017 book, Sus­tain­able Tour­ism on a Finite Plan­et, reviews the sus­tain­ab­il­ity strategies for each sec­tor of the tour­ism industry.

As pro­pri­et­or of the inter­na­tion­al con­sult­ing firm Epler­Wood Inter­na­tion­al (EWI), Megan “designs value-added sus­tain­able tour­ism eco­nom­ies”; work­ing with inter­na­tion­al and region­al devel­op­ment agen­cies, des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment organ­isa­tions, and devel­op­ment banks since 2003.