Asian Tourism Sustainability

Dr. Ann Selvaranee Balasingam  is currently the Head School of Hospitality & Tourism Faculty of Business, Hospitality & Humanities at Nilai university in Malaysia. She has been working in the hospitality industry since her teenage years before venturing into academia since 2008 after obtaining her Master in Business Administration from the University of Western Australia and PhD in Tourism from University Putra Malaysia (UPM). She has been teaching business and hospitality courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. She is also an active member of the Tourism Educators Association of Malaysia (TEAM). Her area of research is in sustainable tourism with a focus on Malaysian homestays and tourism sustainability.

Dr. Yue Ma  is an early career researcher. She is currently a lecturer in tourism and society, and a member of the Tourism Research and Education Network (TRENd) at the University of Tasmania. Yue received her PhD in December 2019 from University of Tasmania. Her research has included: water-gender-tourism nexus; sustainable development of Chinese national parks; tourism education during pandemic, Chinese outbound tourism, Chinese culture and social media in research.