Meet RPTM Instagram Ambassador, Isabel Poorbaugh!
Isabel is a second-year student focusing on outdoor recreation and minoring in environmental resource management. She is interested in pursuing a career with the National Park Service. The HHD Instagram Ambassador initiative highlights our majors through the eyes of the students within their program. We invite you to follow her account to learn, explore, and experience our programs.
Meet RPTM Instagram Ambassador, Maggie Dulac!
Maggie is a fourth-year student focusing on Commercial Tourism and minoring in Sports Studies. She is interested in pursuing a career in the resort or travel industry. The HHD Instagram Ambassador initiative highlights our majors through the eyes of the students within their program. We invite you to follow her account to learn, explore, and experience our programs.
Researchers receive $1.4M to study how outdoor education influences character
New, 3-year project led by Pete Allison, associate professor, will examine how outdoor experiential education builds character in a multicultural setting. This project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and will use data from Outward Bound International Schools in 34 countries.
Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
Transforming Health and Wellness — Through Engaging People in Recreation
Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Penn State strives to positively impact health and wellness through recreation, park, tourism, and leisure opportunities — often affectionately referred to by many as the aspirational “bucket list” activities of their lives.
Undergraduate Program
Undergraduate Program
Explore the undergraduate degree that examines the broad spectrum of ways in which leisure activities, tourism and participating in life changing “experiences” impact our health and well-being.
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Graduate Program
Graduate Program
The graduate program explores how the social, environmental, psychological, and economic aspects of a broad array of leisure activities and pursuits can truly transform people’s lives and sense of well-being.
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Research
Research
Our team of esteemed research professionals collaborates closely with students and industry partners to examine how people engage in a full spectrum of recreational activities and how it affects their lives, the lives of others, and the environment around them.
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World Campus
World Campus
The RPTM program on World Campus can help prepare you for a career in one of the world’s largest service-sector industries, all from the comfort of your home. It has been built to help you gain the theoretical, managerial, practical and technical skills needed to succeed in the field.
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Interdisciplinary research at Penn State brings together experts from throughout the University to help solve problems. RPTM researchers joined the effort to learn more about public perception of prescribed burns within Pennsylvania forests.
