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Advances in Hospitality and Tourism
This new volume addresses the growing interest to understand tourism and hospitality in Southeast and South Asia, two regions that have seen tremendous growth in international tourists in recent years. It explores the current development of hospitality and tourism industry in the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as other key countries in Southeast and South Asia. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: Jinlin Zhao, PhD Professor, Director of Graduate Program, and Director of Asia and Pacific Development, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA Jinlin Zhao, PhD, is a Professor, Director of Graduate Program and Director of Asia and Pacific Development, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. He was previously an associate professor and coordinator of special studies in hospitality management at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, where he created the hospitality management degree program. Dr. Zhao edited the books The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in China: New Growth, Trends, and Developments and Handbook of Hospitality Strategic Management, in which he also co-authored several chapters. In addition, he has published many refereed articles in several research journals and several book chapters and has given more than 70 presentations at international hospitality conferences. Dr. Zhao has guided and mentored graduate students in research, which resulted in many publications in high-ranking academic journals and presentations at international conferences. His varied career also included work as foodservice manager during the 1996 Atlanta and 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Training Manager for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Catering Project, human resource expert for 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, researcher for the Great Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, and visiting professor at several universities, such as Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Macao City University, Jinan University. In 2015, he was named a Municipal International Scholar by the Shanghai Education Commission at Shanghai Institute of Tourism. He has been given training courses in many cities in Mainland, China, as well in Taiwan and Japan. He was awarded “Fulbright Specialist” by the Fulbright Foundation, USA and was invited to teach at Northern University of Denmark in summer, 2016. Lianping Ren, D.HTM Professor and Academic Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao Lianping (Eve) Ren, D.HTM, is a Professor and the Academic Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs at the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Global Scholars in Marketing Science and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Cases. Dr. Ren has been serving as a committee member for the Quality Tourism Service Accreditation Scheme in Macau since 2016 and is now also serving as a committee member for the Guiding Committee of Tourism Programs (Undergraduate Level) in Guangdong Province, China. Dr. Ren’s early career includes a two-year full-time position as a tour guide and a tour leader, as well as experience in the hotel sector. This has given her much inspiration in academic research as well as classroom teaching. Her research interest includes strategic management in the hotel and tourism industry, hotel studies, consumer behavior in hospitality and tourism, and hospitality education. Dr. Ren holds a doctorate from the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a master’s degree from the University of Warwick, Britain. Dr. Ren is a Certified Hospitality Educator, qualified by the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute in 2009; and she obtained Certification of Hotel Industry Analyst, jointly issued by the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute and the Smith Travel Research in 2013. Xiangping Li, PhD Assistant Professor, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao Xiangping Li, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies. Her research interests include sustainable tourism development, tourist behavior, and destination marketing. She has won multiple government projects as principal investigator or co-investigator, such as “Compilation of References for ‘Macao Tourism Development Master Plan,’” commissioned by the Macao Tourism Development Committee; and “Malaysian Visitor Profile Study” and “Japanese Visitor Profile Study,” commissioned by Macao Government Tourism Office. She earned her PhD in Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) and a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii (USA). |
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