ZHOU Ling

Associate professor   Supervisor of Master's Candidates

Gender : Female

Date of Birth : 1975-04-05

Alma Mater : Sun Yat-sen University(Guangzhou, China)

Education Level : Doctoral Degree in Education

Degree : 博士学位

Status : Employed

School/Department : School of Economics and Management

Date of Employment : 1999-07-01

Discipline : Management Science Science

Business Address : Room 442, Building 1, North Campus

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Education Background

1992.9 -- 1996.6

Hubei University       Geography Education       Undergraduate       Bachelor's Degree in Science

1996.9 -- 1999.6

China Central Normal University       Human Geography       Graduate       Master's Degree in Science

2003.9 -- 2008.6

Sun Yat-sen University       tourism management       Postgraduate       Doctoral Degree in Management

Research Focus

Tourism development, planning and management
Ecotourism & Sustainable tourism
 Current researches focus on ecotourism, sustainable development and community livelihoods
Parallel interests are in tourism organization and destination governance, tourism economic organizations

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  • Work Experience

    1999.8 -- Now

    China University of Geosciences-Wuhan(CUG-Wuhan)      Tourism Department, School of Economics and Management

    Personal Profile

    • Gender: Female

    • Position: Associate Professor

    • Faculty: Tourism Department, School of Economics and Management

    • University: China University of Geosciences-Wuhan(CUG-Wuhan)

    • Address: 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, China, 430074

    • Email: zhouling21c@qq.com; zhouling21c@gmail.com

    • PhD (Management)(2008) obtained from Sun Yat-sen University, China

    • Academic training is a blend of tourism, management and geography

    • Research areas
            Tourism development, planning and management
              Ecotourism & Sustainable tourism

    •       Institutional Economics and Governance of Tourist Destinations  

    • Current researches focus:

    •      NGOs & ecotourism, sustainable development and community livelihoods

    •      Governance of National Parks and their Equivalents  

    • Parallel interests are in tourism organization and destination governance
             Tourism economic organizations and the governance of cross-administrative-district tourist destination(Related researches funded by central government of China)
             The genesis of a tourist destination                                                        

    • Principal investigator of NSFC project (EPSRC equivalent)
            Evolution and Form Selection of the Organizations for the Governance of the Cross-administrative-district Tourist Destination: An Organization Economics Perspective(2011-2013, ¥190,000)

    • With experience in tourism development master planning for worldwide famous tourist destinations in china