The Sustainable Tourism Lab was developed to protect tourism destinations for future generations of residents and visitors.
The Lab provides data and services to help tourism organizations around the country balance visitor and community needs. It aims to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to pursue sustainable solutions to common tourism industry problems.
To improve the tourism industry through a collaborative, stakeholder-driven process, the lab works to research and design sustainable solutions to the industry’s most pressing problems.
2025
ANNUAL REPORT
Evaluating Economic Policy Responses to Appease Growing Dissent in Tourism
Todd Montgomery
PROTECTING PARADISE: A SOCIALLY OPTIMAL TOURIST TAX FRAMEWORK
Todd Montgomery
2024
ANNUAL REPORT
2023
ANNUAL REPORT
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT OF TOURISM
Todd Montgomery
Our Research in the News
destination think
Learning from resident sentiment studies at OSU’s Sustainable Tourism Lab
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Sustainable Tourism Lab measures how residents weigh pros, cons of tourism in their communities
usa today
Reports of price gouging at Oregon hotels after wildfires leads governor to issue order
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Future of popular venue at Silver Falls State Park unclear after operator ends contract
New technology from OSU-Cascades
Sustainable Tourism Lab measures how residents weigh pros, cons of tourism in their communities
KTVZ 21
New technology from OSU-Cascades and community partners is aimed at reducing food waste
Oregon visitor spending stalls, faces fresh headwinds
Oregon has a lot to offer tourists — the Pacific Ocean, the Cascades, waterfalls, high deserts
