Supervision and Reviewing Higher Degree Research (HRD) Students

I have successfully supervised 20 full-time PhD research students in completing their PhD dissertations since 2005 to current:
Topics include;

(1) Sustainable tourism development in Papua New Guinea,

(2) Dark tourism sites in Korea,

(3) Multi-cultural festivals in Korea,

(4) Sustainable slow food movement in Australia and overseas,

(5) Medical tourism industry in Thailand,

(6) Music festivals in Australia,

(7) Sustainable development of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in China,

(8) Slow City development in Japan and the Caribbean Sea,

(9) Health and medical tourism development in Saudi Arabia,

(10) Island tourism development in Australia and Korea,

(11) Cross-cultural issues in the global hospitality industry,

(12) Tourism education in Japan,

(13) Art heritage tourism in China,

(14) Health and spa tourism marketing in Japan,

(15) Health and wellness tourism in Japan and Taiwan,

(16) Destination social responsibility in Korea,

(17) Sustainable health-oriented tourism marketing in Macao

Reviewed as the official external examiner to review the submitted PhD thesis from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong from October 2019 to February 2020. The thesis is entitled ‘Development of a slow city tourism evaluation index using Delphi-AHP’ by Jeong Hyun Kim.

Reviewed as the official external examiner to review the submitted PhD thesis from Griffith University, Australia from August to October 2019. The thesis is entitled ‘Mutual authentication of intangible cultural heritage: The Rush Mela Festival in the Bangladesh Sundarbans’ by Shahida Khanom.

Reviewed as the official external examiner of the submitted full PhD thesis of Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia from February to May 2015. The title of the thesis is ‘Unlocking souvenir shopping tourism in Indonesia: A cross-cultural study’ by Lusianus Kusdibyo.

Reviewed as the official external examiner of the submitted full PhD thesis of University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand from January to March 2009. The title of the thesis was ‘Halal restaurants in New Zealand: Implications for the hospitality and tourism industry’ by Wan Melissa Wan-Hassan.

Supervised more than 10 Master’s Degree students for completing their dissertation.

Supervised more than 20 Bachelor’s Degree and 4 Honours Degree students for completing their dissertation.