Meet The Organizers

Haiyan Song

Haiyan Song is Mr and Mrs Chan Chak Fu Professor in International Tourism in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interest is tourism economics, with a particular focus on tourism demand modelling and forecasting methodologies. He has published widely in such journals as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics and International Journal of Forecasting. Professor Song is also an elected Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the International Association of China Tourism Studies. He is also the co-curator of the Curated Collection of Tourism Demand Forecasting of Annals of Tourism Research.

Gang Li

Gang Li is Professor of Tourism Economics at the University of Surrey, where he also leads the Competitiveness of the Visitor Economy Research Centre. With his backwound in economics and statistics, Gang is interested in methodological developments in tourism demand modelling and forecasting, especially systematic approaches. His research appears in Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, International Journal of Forecasting, and so on. He also co-authored a research book “Advanced Econometrics of Tourism Demand”. Gang is an elected fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. He is also the co-curator of the Curated Collection of Tourism Demand Forecasting of Annals of Tourism Research.

Doris Chenguang Wu

Doris Chenguang Wu is professor of tourism economics and Assistant Dean of the School of Business at Sun Yat-Sen University in China. Her research interests include tourism forecasting and the assessment of the economic impact of tourism. She has published in such journals as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, International Journal of Forecasting and so on. Recently she co-edited a book “Econometric Modelling and Forecasting of Tourism Demand: Methods and Applications” published by Routledge. She is also the Chair of the Tourism and Hospitality Section of the International Institute of Forecasters.

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