Impactful Technologies Transforming the Food Industry

Şule Aydın was born in Artvin. She graduated from Mersin University, Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Management in 1994. After completing her graduate education in Department of Tourism Management at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University between 1996-1998. She completed doctorate education at Dokuz Eylül University in Department of Tourism Management between 1998-2004. Prof. Dr. Aydın was a faculty member at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (2004-2011), Trakya University (2012) and Batman University (2015-2016). Since 2017, Prof. Dr. Şule AYDIN has been an on-duty dean Faculty of Tourism at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University. Her research interest includes hotel management, organizational behavior, human research management Eda Özgül Katlav pursued her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University's Institute of Social Sciences, specializing in Tourism Management. Following her studies, she undertook postdoctoral research at the University of South Florida's M3 Center for Hospitality Technology & Innovation from 2021 to 2022. She currently holds a position as an associate professor in the Department of Tourism Management at the Faculty of Tourism. Her research interests include employee behavior, rural tourism, and tourism technologies. Koray Çamlıca born in İzmir. He completed his undergraduate degree at Gazi University's Faculty of Commerce and Tourism Education, specializing in Tourism Management and Hospitality Management. He also achieved a Bachelor's in Business Administration and Tourism Guidance. His master's degree, completed in 2014, was from Hacettepe University's Social Sciences Institute in Tourism Management. He earned his PhD from Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University's Institute of Social Sciences, majoring in Tourism Management, in 2017. He began his academic journey as a Research Assistant at Bitlis Eren University's School of Tourism and Hotel Management in 2013. From 2014 to 2021, he served at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University's Faculty of Tourism. Since 2021, he has been a Doctor Lecturer in the Department of Tourism Guidance at the same institution. As of 2023, he attained his associate professorship. His scholarly pursuits revolve around tourism marketing, sustainable tourism, cultural heritage, and consumer behavior in the realm of "Tourism" Science. Firdevs Yönet Eren born in Mersin, Turkey, in 1994. She graduated first in her class from Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University's Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department in 2016. She joined the same institution as a research assistant in 2017. She earned her master's from Gazi University's Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department in 2018. In 2022, she achieved her doctoral degree from Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, specializing in Gastronomy and Culinary Arts. Over the years, she has participated in numerous workshops, courses, and trainings related to gastronomy. Her research areas encompass culinary culture, gastronomic tourism, cultural heritage and gastronomy, viticulture, local products, and Turkish cuisine.