15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dr. Joseph Chen is Professor of Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Management at the School of Public Health, Indiana University (Bloomington), USA. Dr. Chen has been involved in graduate student advising, scholarly publication, journal editing, and scientific grant projects. At an early stage of his career, he received a national fellowship as Fulbright Senior Scholar and research awards from I-CHRIE and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Dr. Chen has been awarded prestigious grants nationally and internationally. His journal publications and citations have been recognized by top-tier journals that named him as one of the leading scholars in the field of tourism and hospitality according to the productivity in top-tier tourism/hospitality journals. He is a co-author of a textbook titled Sustainability in the Hospitality industry: Principle of Sustainable Operations (1st, 2nd, 3nd & 4th editions)—a pioneer work covering sustainability in the context of hospitality management. |
Bruce is Professor, Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism, Prince of Songkla University and Adjunct Professor Central Queensland University. Prior to his academic career he worked as a transport analyst for the Queensland State Government and as a high school teacher. He has a wide range of research interests including crisis management, transport, sustainability, small islands, climate change and rural tourism. Other active areas of research include mobilities research and implications of the transition to net-zero. He has authored 125 journal articles and 99 book chapters and authored or co-authored 13 books. He is currently working on a coedited book on tourism crisis management. He serves on a number of editorial boards including the International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Sustainability, Journal of Vacation Marketing, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, Tourism Geographies and Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. |
Colin Johnson, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management and a Lam-Larsen Distinguished Service Professor in the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. He has been an invited research scholar at Macerata University in Italy and Chemnitz University in Germany. He holds a doctorate in economic and social sciences from Fribourg University, Switzerland. He has held faculty and management positions in seven colleges and Universities in the UK, Switzerland, and the US. He has worked in many sectors of the hospitality industry including contract catering, airline catering, two, four, and five-star hotels, private members’ clubs, retail restaurants and Manchester United Football Club. His research interests include services internationalization, small and medium size enterprises, gastronomic tourism, and social entrepreneurship. |
Professor Gudrun Helgadottir is originally from Iceland and held a professorship in rural tourism at Holar University. Now, she is a professor of tourism at the University of South-Eastern Norway, the school of business in Norway. Her current job responsibilities are program coordination of the Master in Sustainability Management, leading the research group Sustainability Management, scientific research, and Ph.D. supervision. She is active in interdisciplinary research focusing on social sustainability, rural and regional development, and human-animal relations. Her recent research involves the impacts of climate change on tourism. For example, the “climate change and value chains in the Arctic 2020-2022” project has been looking at light pollution issues and the use of artificial light at night in tourism. |
Joseph S. Chen Moderator | |
Bruce Prideaux Panelist | |
Colin Johnson Panelist | |
Gudrun Helgadottir Panelist | |