Prof. Jafar Jafari
Keynote title: Intelligence Mobilities: Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice
Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President of International Academy for the Study of Tourism; and Tourism Intelligence Forum. A cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA), with BA (English, University of Isfahan, Iran) and BS and MS (hotel and tourism management, Cornell University, USA), he is the recipient of the 2005 UNWTO Ulysses Prize, with Honorary Doctorates from Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Lifetime Honorary Professorship of Bundelkhand University (India), Visiting Professor of the University of Isfahan (Iran), Sun Yat-sen University (China), Special Advisor to the UNWTO Secretary General, and Professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin-Stout (USA).
Professor Christina Chi
Keynote title: Her Wine, Her Way: Marketing towards Women Wine Consumers & Marketing for Women Winemakers
Dr. Christina G. Chi is a professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management (SHBM) at Washington State University (WSU). Dr. Chi’s research focuses on tourism marketing, traveler behavior, and hospitality management, with a particular interest in areas like tourist satisfaction, destination loyalty, and sustainability in tourism and hospitality. She is widely published in top-tier tourism and hospitality journals and has presented her research at numerous conferences. Her work has also been covered by news media and has been recognized by Stanford University and Elsevier for her impact. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Chi is involved in international collaboration and research, serving as a research fellow for the School of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the International Center for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Mauritius, Mauritius. She has also been inducted into the International Association for China Tourism Studies as a fellow and appointed to the Research Grants Council’s business studies panel in Hong Kong.
Prof. Scott Cohen
Keynote title: Lifestyle mobilities: Past, present and future
Scott Cohen is a Professor of Tourism and Transport with over 20 years of academic experience. He is presently Invited Full Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal. Scott’s research is primarily focused on societal issues in the contexts of travel, mobility and transport, with particular interests in hypermobility, sustainable mobility, autonomous vehicles and in business and lifestyle travel. He publishes regularly across high impact business, social science and environmental science journals. Scott is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the International Association for China Tourism Studies.