Dr Eerang Park
Dr Eerang Park is Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer of Tourism at the School of Business and Law.
Dr Eerang Park joined the School of Business and Law in 2020. She previously worked at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, University of Lincoln in the UK, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. During her time in New Zealand, she served as a director of the postgraduate programmes in tourism management and developed collaborative tourism research projects with the industry partners including Hutt City Council and ZEALANDIA eco-sanctuary.
Her scholarly interests and research expertise are within the three themes: community engagement and tourism development, foodscape and food tourist experience, and social sustainability of tourism. Her research involves multi-stakeholders’ perspectives, and she has pioneered research in the context of the global slow-city movement and tourism in the peripheral Asian regions. Her research publications appear at top-tier tourism journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research.
2019 - Visiting professor in tourism management, Mahidol University International College, Bangkok, Thailand
2019 - Outstanding Paper, Emerald Literati Awards
2019 - Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Excellence Award, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2014 - Best Paper Award, the 4th International Conference on Tourism Research (4ICTR), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
2014 - Best Paper Award,Global Events Congress VI, Adelaide, South Australia
