Dr. Geoffrey Godbey, President of Next Consulting (geoffreygodbey.com), is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at Penn State. He has authored or co-authored eight books and approximately one hundred articles and conducted research dealing with leisure behavior, history and philosophies of leisure, leisure service organizations, aging, and the future of leisure and leisure services. Godbey has testified before committees of the US Senate and Presidential commissions. He has won the National Literary and the Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt excellence in Research awards from NRPA. Dr. Godbey has written for and been featured in a wide variety of mass-circulation magazines and newspapers and has been featured extensively on network television. He is a founder of Venture Publishing, a publisher of scholarly books and textbooks in  leisure studies. Godbey has given invited presentations in eighteen countries and several of his books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Spanish

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