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About IACTS

The International Association for China Tourism Studies (IACTS) was co-founded in 2015 by a group of academics devoted to China tourism research in mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, UK, and US. IACTS envisages itself as an international academic association that acknowledges the growing importance of China tourism research and the increasing knowledge contribution of China tourism scholars to the tourism scholarship worldwide.

IACTS endeavours to:

1. promote ethical, rigorous, and quality research practices in China tourism research;
2. advance tourism knowledge with theoretical developments in the Chinese contexts;
3. encourage international collaborations and scholarly exchange activities among its members to publish quality research in international journals;
4. bridge the communication between tourism research community in China and international tourism research community;
5. provide cutting-edge methodological training, career guidance and counselling to next-generation China tourism researchers; and,
6. provide knowledge-based consulting services to governments, industry and international organisations.

IACTS currently has 35 Fellow members and 4 Outstanding Young Scholar (OYS) members. IACTS members come from China, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

IACTS organises its biennial conferences. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the biennial conference will be organised online. The IACTS 2020 Online Conference will be hosted by Edith Cowan University.

Conference Organising Committee

• Professor Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Professor Jigang Bao, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Professor Sam Huang, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Conference Co-Chairs

• Professor Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Professor Jigang Bao, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Conference Secretary and Host

• Professor Sam Huang, Edith Cowan University, Australia

IACTS 2020 Online Conference

Conference Program

Time Zone References

Conference Speakers 

(alphabet order by surname)

• Billy Bai, Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
• Jigang Bao, Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Christina Chi, Professor, Washington State University, USA
• Scott Cohen, Professor, University of Surrey, UK
• Guoqing Du, Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan
• Huimin Gu, Professor, Beijing International Studies University, China
• Dogan Gursoy, Professor, Washington State University, USA
• Cathy Hsu, Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Brian King, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Gang Li, Professor, University of Surrey, UK
• Robert Li, Professor, Temple University, USA
• Shina Li, Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Qiuju Luo, Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Bo Ma, Professor, Qingdao University, China
• Fang Meng, Associate Professor, South Carolina University, USA
• Li Miao, Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Noel Scott, Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
• Haiyan Song, Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Xiaobo Su, Professor, University of Oregon, USA
• David Weaver, Principal Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
• Chenguang Wu, Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Maoying Wu, Associate Professor, Zhejiang University, China
• Philip Xie, Professor, Bowling Green State University, USA
• Jing Xu, Independent Tourism Advisor and Former UNWTO Director
• Honggang Xu, Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Jingjing Yang, Associate Professor, Beijing International Studies University, China
• Yang Yang, Associate Professor, Temple University, USA
• Jie Zhang, Professor, Nanjing University, China

Technical Support

IACTS 2020 Online Conference will be organised using Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent to the registered conference participants. Conference participants are advised to familiarise themselves with the conferencing software by visiting Zoom’s corporate website (https://zoom.us/) before the conference. Zoom is user-friendly and can be used in the webpage mode.

Contact

• Professor Sam Huang
• Email: s.huang@ecu.edu.au
• Tel: +61 8 6304 2742