Speakers

Opening Keynote

Professor Takayoshi Yamamura

Roundtable

Associate Professor Bongkosh Rittichainuwat

Associate Professor Tianxin Zhang

Closing Keynote

Professor Sangkyun (Sean) Kim

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Opening Keynote

Professor Takayoshi Yamamura

Center for Advanced Tourism Studies

Hokkaido University, Japan

Dr. Takayoshi Yamamura (PhD) is a Professor in the Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University. He is one of the pioneers of contents tourism and anime-induced tourism studies in Japan. He has served as the Chair of several governmental advisory boards, such as the Meeting of International Tourism Promotion through Animation Contents of The Japan Tourism Agency. His recent works in English include War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan (with Philip Seaton, Routledge, 2022) and Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom (with Philip Seaton, Channel View Publications, 2020).

Roundtable

Associate Professor Bongkosh Rittichainuwat

International Program in Hotel and Tourism Management

Siam University, Thailand

Dr. Rittichainuwat (PhD) is the Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (APac-CHRIE) where she served as the Director of Research (two terms) and Director of Marketing. She is the Regional Editor of Southeast Asia of the International Journal of Tourism Research, (SSCI, Q1) and also an editor of the Elephant Welfare Book published by CABI (the UK). Bongkosh is also on the editorial board of top 1-15th Quartile 1-Scopus journals in hospitality and tourism: Asia Pacific Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. She also published a book titled “Special Interest Tourism” with Cambridge Scholar Publishing, UK.

Associate Professor Tianxin Zhang

College of Architecture and Landscape

Peking University, China

Dr. Tianxin Zhang (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Urban Design in the College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Montreal in the year 2015-2016. His research interests include urban design methodology and theory, built-environment history, heritage preservation, national park planning, tourism planning, etc. His research and planning projects include the Influence of tourism on the Old Town of Lijiang as a world heritage, master planning of Nanxijiang National Scenic Area, tourism planning of Fujin city, etc. His recent research focuses on comparative landscape and tourism across the Euro-Asian countries.

Closing Keynote

Professor Sangkyun (Sean) Kim

School of Business & Law Centre for Tourism Research

Edith Cowan University, Australia

Dr Sangkyun (Sean) Kim is Professor of Tourism and Creative Industries and Deputy Head of School of Business & Law Centre for Tourism Research at Edith Cowan University in Australia. Professor Kim is a world-leading scholar in the field of film tourism and its broader impacts and implications. He is the co-editor of 'Film Tourism in Asia (2018)'. His main research interests include film tourism, tourism and popular culture, media representation, fan pilgrimage, and placemaking. He is listed as the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists in the field of “Sport, Leisure & Tourism” by Stanford University, for five consecutive years since 2020. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research (JHTR).

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