Supply Chain Management of Tourism Towards Sustainability (eBook)

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries. The book describes the current state of the tourism industry in Asia from a perspective of sustainability, and analyzes the trade-offs between the three pillars of sustainability (environment, society, economy) as they pertain to the implementation of sustainable tourism. In 5 chapters, this book offers guidance for students, researchers and corporations interested in applying sustainability in tourism related activities.

Dr. Kullapa Soratana is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Logistics and Digital Supply Chain, Naresuan University, Thailand. She earned both her BSc, majoring in Environmental Science, in 2002, and her MSc, majoring in Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management (International Program) in 2005 from Chulalongkorn University. She completed her PhD in sustainability and green design at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. Dr. Soratana has written 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 21 conference proceedings and abstracts, and has teaching experience in the fields of research methodology in science and technology, and sustainable logistics and supply chain management. Her research interests include the fields of life cycle approaches and their implications and sustainable development in the tourism industry. 

Dr. Amy E. Landis joined Mines in August 2017 as the first Presidential Faculty Fellow for Access, Attainment, and Diversity. Previously, she was a full professor at Clemson University from 2015 through 2017 as the Thomas F. Hash '69 endowed chair in sustainable development. There, she served as Director for Clemson's Institute for Sustainability, which brings together interdisciplinary research, education, and business for sustainability. Dr. Landis spent her Associate Professor years at Arizona State University's School of Sustainable Engineering in the Built Environment from 2012 to 2015. During her tenure at ASU she served as Director of Research for the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, Senior Sustainability Scientist for the Global Institute of Sustainability, Lincoln Fellow of Sustainable Development and Ethics for the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, and Tooker Professor of STEM Education for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Dr. Landis began her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh after having obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Thomas L. Theis. 

Dr. Fu Jing is an Associate Professor of Chengdu University, P. R. China. She received her PhD in Knowledge Management from Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2012. Right after, Dr. Fu conducted her post-doc research in 'Customer Knowledge Management for Tourism and Hospitality Industry' in the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece fully supported by an Erasmus Mundus Action 2-Panacea project. In 2018, Dr. Fu obtained valuable experiences to integrate theories with practices when working as the Program Manager of the MicroMasters Program in International Hospitality Management jointly offered by edX and the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Fu has been authoring and co-authoring for more than 20 internationally-referred journal papers and conference proceeding full-papers. She has been an active researcher for four EU-funded research projects and four Thai Government-funded research projects, and reviewer for four renown international journals, which are Tourism Review (SSCI), Journal of Knowledge Management(SSCI), International Journal of Tourism Cities (SCOPUS) and VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR). 

Dr. Hidetsugu Suto is a professor of the System Design Laboratory, established in 2006 at Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Hidetsugu Suto has received his Informatics Diploma from the Kyoto University, Japan (2004). He has joined Muroran Institute of Technology in 2006. His interests focus on communication and media informatics that include community design, Kansei engineering (affective Engineering), cognitive science, and education system. He is working for projects in which he proposes novel communication systems based on BI/MB concept. He is a member of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), The Human Interface Society (HIS), The Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE), and The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). He got the best paper awards from SICE (2003) and JSKE (2016). He also got the best presentation awards from Human interface Society (2004, 2006) and JSKE (2009).