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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Faruk Kerem Şentürk serves as a faculty member in the Department of Management and Organization at Düzce University's Faculty of Business Administration. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Akdeniz University. His research areas include organizational behavior, leadership, business ethics, meaning at work, management and organization, tourism management, business strategies, and behavioral sciences. In addition to his academic endeavors, Dr. Şentürk has mentored numerous master’s and doctoral students and actively participated in various social projects.

Dr. Christina K. Dimitriou is a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) and Certified Online Instructor who has been teaching undergraduate and graduate tourism and hospitality courses for twenty-five years in Europe and the United States. She has industry experience in hotels and her research accomplishments include journal articles, book chapters, conference posters and presentations at regional, national and international conferences. She has served as a scientific committee member, conference moderator, and manuscript reviewer for prestigious journals and conferences in the fields of hospitality, tourism, and healthcare. She also holds several editorial positions in the tourism and hospitality field, demonstrating her dedicated commitment to advancing scholarly research and fostering community engagement on a global scale.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Algarve, a Master's from University of Lisbon, a Ph.D. from the University of Algarve (Portugal), and an aggregation at University of Algarve. She has been an associate professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Economics since January 2024, invited Full Professor at Universidad Europea, Canarias, President of the first collaborative laboratory in Tourism, and Coordinator of the tourism and hospitality research line at CEFAGE. She was also Dean of the tourism faculty at Universidade Europeia from 2014 to 2021. At the international level, she is affiliated with TRC - Tourism Research Center and she has served as an expert in evaluating projects, PhD and Master courses, and doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in the United Nations, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, Horizon Europe, QS University Rankings, Assumption Business Administration College, (Thailand), Croatia National Agency. She is also a member of the executive board of Advances of Tourism Marketing Conference (ATMC), a conference with 20 years. Further, she sits on several organizing and scientific committees worldwide. She acts as an editorial board member of CIT, JTR, Anatolia, CBTH, JHTM, and JHTI and is the editor of the book series- ATMC Goodfellow Publishers. In addition, she serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for most of the tourism and hospitality journals. She is also involved in several tourism-based national and international research projects, particularly with her partners based in Europe. She was also invited as a guest lecturer in STHM, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA, Cartagena University, Cagliari University, ISEG, Aveiro University, IPL, ESHTE, ISCTE. Her research has been published in top-tier journals, special issues, book chapters, and books. She has supervised almost 40 master's dissertations, 13 doctoral theses, and 5 post-doctoral projects. Her work has received over five thousand citations counted by Google Scholar. She was nominated as an outstanding reviewer by Emerald (2019), among other awards and recognitions. Her research interests entail tourism consumer behaviour, marketing, and image. Tourism economics and models are also some of her research passions.

Holding a PhD in Geography from Grenoble Alpes University, France, I am passionate about foresight and future studies on tourism. I hold a Master’s degree in Tourism, Innovation, and Transition and a Bachelor's and a Master's in Tourism Management. I aim to inspire and inform the tourism community and the public about tourism development, transformation opportunities, and challenges.

Dr. Siao Fui Wong is Assistant Professor in Modul School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Nanjing, Nanjing Tech University Pujiang Institute, China. Her research focuses on destination branding and marketing, sense of place, and qualitative content analysis 

Dr. Atilla AKBABA 1969 yılında Kars’ta doğdu. İlkokul, ortaokul ve lise öğrenimini Kdz. Ereğli’de tamamladı. Lisans öğrenimini 1991 yılında Akdeniz Üniversitesi Turizm İşletmeciliği ve Otelcilik Yüksekokulu’nda 1.’lik derecesi ile tamamladı. Daha sonra, Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı tarafından açılan burs sınavını kazanarak Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ne gitti ve 1997 yılında Florida International University, The School of Hospitality’den, ulaşılabilecek en yüksek not ortalaması olan 4.00 üzerinden 4.00 ortalama ile yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. 2003 yılında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Turizm İşletmeciliği Doktora Programı’nı 1.’lik derecesi ile tamamlayarak doktora derecesi aldı. Lisans ve yüksek lisans öğrenimi sırasında Türkiye, Almanya ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde çeşitli turizm işletmelerinde çalışma ve inceleme yapma olanağı buldu. 2017-2020 yılları arasında İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi Turizm Fakültesi Dekanlığını yürütmüştür. Şu anda İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi, Turizm Fakültesi’nde görev yapmakta olan Prof. Dr. Atilla Akbaba Gastronomi ve Mutfak Sanatları Bölüm Başkanlığı görevini yürütmektedir. Turizm Fakülteleri Dekanlar Konseyi (TURDEK) Kurucu Başkanı olan ve TURDEK yürütme Kurulu Başkanlığı görevini de yürüten Atilla Akbaba, Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi’nin kurucusudur ve editör görevini de sürdürmektedir. Evli ve iki çocuk sahibi olan Prof. Dr. Atilla Akbaba’nın akademik ilgi alanlarında yurt içinde ve yurt dışında yayınlanmış çeşitli makale, kitap, bildiri ve çevrileri vardır. 

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Sergio Reyes holds a PhD in Geography. Since 2016 he has been a university lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Universidad de Málaga. In the latter, he is Professor of the Area of Regional Geographical Analysis in the Department of Geography. His lines of research are oriented towards the analysis and study of land planning and management and urban areas, the application of geotechnologies and the study of cultural representations of territory and landscape.

Zélia Breda holds a PhD in Tourism, a MA in Chinese Studies (Business and International Relations) and a BSc in Tourism Management and Planning from the University of Aveiro, where she is Assistant Professor and Vice-Director of the PhD in Tourism. She is an integrated member of the Research Unit 'Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies', and a founding member of the Observatory of China, and a senior consultant of Idtour, a tourism R&D spin-off company. She is also member of the editorial and scientific boards of a few academic national and international journals, as well member of the organizing and scientific committees of international tourism conferences. She has authored and co-authored several national and international papers and communications on tourism development and planning. She has also been taking part of several research projects in the tourism field, both as a member of the team and as a consultant.

Kazeminia earned her PhD in marketing from Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests include tourism marketing, consumer behavior, sharing economy, and interorganizational relationships. Her academic research works have been featured in reputable marketing and tourism journals, notably the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Travel Research. 

Please refer to google.scholar to view her research works:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GEtiOwkAAAAJ&hl=en