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