Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition

Prof. Hakan Sezerel is a faculty member at Anadolu University, Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Management. He is also a creative drama instructor. His research interests include tourism education, creative drama, process drama, tourist guidance, intercultural competence, and diversity management. Bryan Christiansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Global Research Society, LLC in Michigan, USA. A former business lecturer at universities in Russia, Turkey, and the USA, he has traveled to 41 countries where he has conducted international business since 1985 in multiple languages and various industries with Global 500 firms and smaller. Christiansen received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing at the University of the State of New York in 1996 and his MBA degree at Capella University in 2003. The author of 22 Scopus-indexed Reference books on business, cultural studies, economics, and psychology, he is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish. Christiansen is currently working with a Russian theoretical mathematician on a new economic model for developing nations.