Kristin Lamoureux is the Director of the International Institute of Tourism Studies
at The George Washington University, and an adjunct faculty member of  the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, specializing in the  planning and development of sustainable tourism.

Kristin has worked as a tourism consultant to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Ecotourism Society, and Conservation International, among others. She has provided technical assistance with existing and future tourism development, management and marketing.

Kristin is currently involved in several projects focusing on the development of tourism competitive clusters as a means for economic development in various destinations including Bulgaria, Dominican Republic and others. She served as a consultant on a World Bank funded project entitled “Honduras: Sustainable Coastal Tourism Project” intended to lessen poverty in the Northern Coastal regions of Honduras.