Faculty/Staff

Kimberly Brooke Hansen

Kimberly Brooke Hansen

Associate Professor of Instruction
kbhansen@usf.edu
Campus: Sarasota-Manatee
Room: SMC A313B
Vita

Brooke Hansen is the associate director of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. She is a Board of Directors member for Keep Florida Beautiful and the WellFed Community and serves as an expert for Hospitality Net's World Panel. Since 2020, she has been an academic affiliate at the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) helping to organize World Tourism Day and conducting collaborative research. Hansen is a member of the Florida Agritourism Association and B Tourism, a group that meets monthly to promote the B Corp movement globally for sustainable tourism.

Brooke Hansen is paving the way for a more sustainable tourism industry — at home and abroad

Numerous grants, including two from the U.S. Department of State, have funded her research projects on virtualization technologies for tourism, sustainable businesses practices, certifications in tourism, regenerative food systems, and promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She also works as a consultant with hospitality companies and internationally on sustainable development projects.

Since 2024, she is a Fulbright Specialist for a three-year term with the first project in Serbia hosted by the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics on extended reality applications for tourism. The project focuses on developing virtual tours and promotion for small and medium sized tourism businesses, including those led by women entrepreneurs. The other initiative she works on as part of the Fulbright award is the expansion of the Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route, a cultural heritage tourism experience that spans ten countries and has been certified by the European Institute of Cultural Routes.

Hansen has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and events, including for the Serbian Chamber of Commerce in 2024, the Adventure Travel Trade Association in 2024, the 2nd World Agritourism Congress in Italy, the 2022 Keep Florida Beautiful Conference, the 2021 World Food Travel Association’s FoodTreX Research Summit, and the annual World Tourism Day Forum. She served on the NFL Super Bowl LV Sustainability Subcommittee in 2020 and was named in 2020 as a South Atlantic Woman to Watch by the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2021, she was honored as a Shero by USGBC Florida at the Women in Green Conference and inducted into the CLEO Institute’s Leadership Circle for her work on gender, food system resilience, and climate justice.

Hansen is a social scientist and received her PhD from the University of Arizona in anthropology and her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Florida. She is a Certified Professional in Sustainable Tourism from the Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

Teaching

  • HFT 4701 - Sustainable Tourism Practices
  • HFT 4930 - Sports Tourism
  • HFT 4930 - Adventure Travel
  • IDH 4500 - Destination Stewardship
  • IDH 4200 - Geographical Perspectives: Big Island Hawai`i
  • IDS 6216 - Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • IDS 6236 - Sustainable Tourism Development: Principles & Practices
  • IDS 6237 - Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Management
  • IDS 6238 - Applied Heritage and Sustainability Research