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    Editors-in-Chief
  • 구철모 교수님

    Chulmo Koo, PhD
    Professor & Chair of Smart Tourism Education Platform(STEP)
    Kyung Hee University
    South Korea

    Dr. Chulmo Koo is currently a Chair and Professor of Smart Tourism Education Platform (STEP), College of Hotel and Tourism Management at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. Dr. Koo has a strong record of smart tourism research and scholarship with significant contributions to both instruction and service. Since joining Kyung Hee’s faculty in 2012, Dr. Koo has received prestigious research award and the Kyung Hee Research Fellowship (2018-2020), Excellent Professor of Kyung Hee (2019) at the school level and the Best Research Paper Award in the ENTER (2015) conference at the IFITT (International Federation of IT and Travel & Tourism). Prior to joining Kyung Hee University, Dr. Koo was an Assistant Professor at Chosun University, South Korea, a Full Time Instructor at Marshall University, USA, Research Fellow at Inha University, and Yonsei University, and Post-Doctorate in the MISRC at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA. In addition to his academic research grants, he is a Principal Investigator (PI) of Brain Korea 21 Research Fund (2020-2027) entitled “Sustainable Smart Tourism and Hospitality Education Platform” (Nation Research Foundation of Korea, USD 4.2 million; EURO 3.8 million) and the Board Member of Director, IFITT (2020-Current), He is h-index 40 and i10-index 85, and Field-Weighted Citation Impact 2.11.Dr. Koo’s research interests have been in smart tourism, smart tourism ecosystems, smart tourism cities, and eTourism. As a part of his research activities, Dr. Koo and his colleagues have published several special issues of smart tourism in various interdisciplinary journals:

    • (2021) Co-guest Editor with Zheng Xiang, Ulrike Gretzel, Marianna Sigala, "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics in Travel, Tourism and Leisure," Electronic Markets.
    • (2021) Co-guest Editor with Younghoon Chang, "New Technologies for the Tourism and Hospitality Industry,"Industrial Management and Data Systems.
    • (2021) Co-guest Editor with Yeungbae Choe, Lawrence Fong, “Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Cultural & Heritage Tourism Experience,” Sustainability.
    • (2021) Co-guest Editor with Brian Donnellan, Ulrike Gretzel, “Smart Tourism Cities,”Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
    • (2018) Co-guest Editor with Lorenzo Cantoni,“Informatics/Data Analysis in Smart Tourism,”Information Processing & Management.
    • (2018) Co-guest Editor with Ulrike Gretzel, “Mobile Technology and Smart Tourism Development,” Sustainability.
    • (2018) Co-guest Editor with Luiz Medes-Filho, Dimitrios Buhalis, “Smart Tourism and Competitive Advantage for Stakeholders,”Tourism Research.
    • (2017) Co-guest Editor with, Jae-Nam, Lee & Jaehyun Park, “Smart Tourism: Traveler, Business, and Organizational Perspectives,” Information and Management.
    • (2017) Co-guest Editor with, Lis Tussyadiah, “How Technology-Enhanced Tourism is Transforming Societies, Cultures, and Economics,”Technological Forecasting & Social Change.
    • (2017) Co-guest Editor with, Fevzi Okumus, Cihan Cobanoglu, Francesco Ricci, “Smart, Connected Hospitality and Tourism,”Information Systems Frontiers.
    • (2017) Co-guest Editor with, Ulrike Gretzel, Lina Zhong, “The Application of Smart Tourism to Cities,” for International Journal of Tourism Cities.
    • (2017) Co-guest Editor with, Rob Law, Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Ben Haobin Ye, “Social Media in Hospitality and Tourism,” for International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
    • (2016) Co-guest Editors with Jae-Nam Lee, Kyung-Hyan Yoo, and Markus Zanker, “Generative Smart Tourism Systems: Man-Machine Interaction,” for International Journal of Information Management.
    • (2015) Co-guest Editor with, Hannes Werthner, Ulkie Greztel, Carlos Lamsfus, “Smart Tourism Systems: Convergence of Information Technologies, Business Models and Experiences,” for Computers in Human Behavior.
    • (2015) Co-guest Editor with Ulike Greztel, Marianna Sigala, and Zheng Xiang, "Smart Tourism: Convergence of Information Technologies, Experiences, and Theories,” Electronic Markets.
    • (2013) Co-guest Editor with, Johann Kranz, Lutz M. Klobe, and Marie-Claude Boudreau, "Smart Energy: Building Business Models, Best Practices, and Theories” for Electronic Markets.
    • (2013) Co-guest Editor with Joseph Sarkis, Richard T. Watson, “Green Information Systems & Technologies: This Generation and Beyond,” Information Systems Frontiers.

    Also he published more than 200 papers in refereed journals including Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Information and Management, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Computers in Human Behavior etc. Among these published articles, “Smart Tourism: Foundations and Developments “is recognized as Paper of the Year (2016) from Electronic Markets (citation 1063) and “Conceptual Foundations for Understanding Smart Tourism Ecosystems,” in Computers in Human Behavior (citation 501) in Google Scholar, and “Smart Tourism Cities: a Duality of Place where Technology Supports the Convergence of Touristic and Residential Experiences” (2021) published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. He was a co-Editor of Information Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021 in ENTER conference of the IFITT.

  • 정남호 교수님

    Namho Chung, PhD
    Professor & Director of Smart Tourism Research Center(STRC)
    Kyung Hee University
    South Korea

    Namho Chung is a Professor at the Smart Tourism Education Platform, College of Hotel and Tourism Management, and the Director of Smart Tourism Research Center at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Also, He is a Co-Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Smart Tourism. He was an assistant professor in Chungju National University, South Korea and he had been a Visiting Research Fellow at School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. Currently, he leads smart tourism cities projects in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea. His name is listed in the Hall of Fame at Kyung Hee University for his outstanding achievements.

    Associate Editors
    • Ulrike Gretzel, University of Southern California, USA
    • Dan Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Claudia C. Brözel, University of Sustainable Development, Germany
    Steering Board
    • Zheng Xiang, Virginia Tech University, USA
      (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism)
    • Marianna Sigala, University of South Australia, Australia
      (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management)
    • Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University, UK
      (Editor-in-Chief, Tourism Review)
    • Thompson Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      (Regional Editor, International Journal of Information Management)
    • Jim Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
      (Editor-in-Chief, Information Processing & Management)
    • Fevzi Okumus, University of Central Florida
      (Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management)
    • Cihan Cobanoglu, University of South Florida
      (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology)
    • Stanislav Ivanov, Varna University of Management, Bulgaria
      (Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Tourism Research)
    • Hing Kai Chan, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
      (Co-Editor, Industrial Management and Data Systems)
    • Rainer Alt, Leipzig University, Germany
      (Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Markets)
    Editorial Board
    • William Cannon Hunter, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Rob Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Sangwon Park, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Hisashi Masuda, Kyoto University, Japan
    • Cody Morris Paris, Middlesex University, Dubai
    • Mu Zhang, Jinan University, China
    • Seul Ki Lee, Sejong University, South Korea
    • Evrim Çeltek, Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey
    • Taeho Hong, Pusan National University, South Korea
    • Taekyung Kim, Kwangwoon University, South Korea
    • Jaehyun Park, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
    • Dobin Yim, Loyola University Maryland, USA
    • Minwoo Lee, University of Houston, USA
    • Jinwon Kim, University of Florida, USA
    • Qi Shanshan, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, China
    • Zhang Nan, Tsinghua University, China
    • Younghoon Chang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
    • Eungkyo Suh, Dankook University, South Korea
    • Anil Bilgihan, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    • Yeongbae Choe, Gachon University, South Korea
    • Kichan Nam, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
    • Lina Zhong, Beijing International Studies University, China
    • Brian Donnellan, Maynooth University, Ireland
    • Kyung Young Lee, Dalhousie University, Canada
    • Elisabetta Raguseo, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
    • Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, University of Deusto, Spain
    • Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, University of Macau, China
    • Daniel Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Kwangsoo Park, North Dakota State University, USA
    • Katerina Volchek, European Campus Rottal-Inn, Germany
    • Bing Pan, Penn State University, USA
    • Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
    • Aaron French, Kennesaw State University, USA
    • Jason Stienmetz, Modul University Vienna, Austria
    • Yulan Yuan, Tunghai University, Taiwan
    • Hidekazu Kasahara, Kyoto University, Japan
    • Patience Tropo, International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), Zambia
    • Miren Aurkene Alzua Sorzabal, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
    • Juho Pesonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
    • Naoya Ito, Hokkaido University, Japan
    • Kwangsoo Park, North Dakota State University, USA
    • Kwanglim Seo, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA
    • Iis Tussyadiah, University of Surrey, England
    • Luiz Mendes Filho, Federal University of Rio Grande do North, Brazil
    • Myung Ja Kim, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Sung-Byung Yang, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    • Yang Yang, Temple University, USA
    • Wonsuk Lee, Kyonggi University, South Korea
    • Hanna Lee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Timothy Jung, Manchester Metropolitan University, England
    • Xiaoyu Zhang (Nancy), Beijing Union University, China
    • Aaron Tham, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
    • Johye Hwnag, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Yoonjae Nam, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
    • Wolfram Höpken, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten , Germany
    • Chiara Giachino, Università di Torino, Italia
    • Robert Micera, Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean, Greece
    • Chul Woo Yoo, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    • Berta Ferrer Rosell, University of Lleida, Spain
    • Abbie Gayle Johnson, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Giacomo Del Chiappa, University of Sassari, Italy
    • Mehraliyev Fuad, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China
    • Catherine Cheung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Nicholas Wise, Kent State University, USA
    • Kasha Minor, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
    • Catherine Cheung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
    • Gözdegül BAŞER, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey
    • Andres Coca Stefaniak, University of Greenwich, UK
    • Chen Kuo Pai, Macau University of Science and Technology, China
    • Chaowu Xie, Huaqiao University, China
    • Mihea Cho, Sejong University, South Korea