Ganghua Chen

Ganghua Chen, PhD, is a full professor in the School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2012. His research interests include tourist behaviours, destination marketing, destination governance, and tourism entrepreneurship. He has published widely on Chinese tourist behaviours, especially Chinese backpackers’ motivation, social identity, and personal development, vacationers’ perceived destination restorative qualities, as well as various tourism governance issues in China in leading tourism journals including Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel Research, and Tourism Management. Currently he serves as the Associate Editor of Tourism Review, Tourism Planning and Development, and Tourism Forum, and sits on the editorial board of a number of leading journals, such as Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Scholar by the International Association for China Tourism Studies in 2020.