Bhandari is an Agritourism and Value-Added Agricultural Marketing Specialist at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland. His responsibilities include developing Extension programs in agritourism, such as organizing agritourism conferences, farm tours, and capacity-building workshops for agritourism operators, conducting research, and publishing and disseminating research results. He chaired the recently organized Maryland Agritourism Conference and regularly organizes Traveling Agritourism Workshops and training in Maryland. Previously, he was with the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bhandari has over 25 years of experience of designing and managing large-scale social (survey) research programs, including program evaluations. He has over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles published in various world-class journals. He is an editorial member of three scientific journals and an occasional reviewer of nearly 20 scientific journals. He has accomplished several assignments (proposal writing, social survey design, survey data collection management and management, impact evaluation, data analysis, and report writing) with various organizations. Bhandari is a member of the Global Agritourism Network (GAN) plus many other professional groups.