Instructor: Dr. Dan Crafts

Dr. Crafts has been a professor at Missouri State University for the past twelve years. During this time he has been the professor for lodging management in the MSU Hospitality and Restaurant Administration program. His professional lodging management experience includes the general manager level. He is active in professional association activities for the lodging industry where he has held positions such as the Treasurer for the Oklahoma Hotel and Motel Association (six years), and a member of the Small Property Advisory Council for the American Hotel and Lodging Association. He also conducts workshops in cooperation with the Bed and Breakfast Inns of Missouri Association for individuals who aspire to be entrepreneurs in the lodging industry. Dr. Crafts emphasizes the entrepreneurial process throughout his course content. In 2003 he was named an Entrepreneurial MOOT CORP® Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Crafts was the lodging management professor for the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration at Oklahoma State University for eight years prior to joining the MSU Hospitality and Restaurant Administration program.