Ying Zhang

Professor Ying Zhang, Vice President of International Tourism Study Association（ITSA）, Professor of Heritage Tourism and International Tourism Research, is the director of International Tourism Research Center, director of MTA Center, former executive director of Office of Relations, Minzu University of China,. She is also serving as a key committee member of the Tourism Discipline Expert committee of China, Evaluation expert of “the Ten thousand talents of tourism” of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the chairperson of the National Tourism Excellent Teaching Contest in China, Council member of Costume Research in China, assessment expert of China Scholarship Council, etc.

Professor Ying Zhang received her Ph.D. from Peking University and finished her post-doctoral research in Minzu University of China. She has been a visiting Scholar in U.C Berkeley, Cambridge University, Oxford University and Oklahoma State University. She has been a visiting Professor in Cesar Ritz College, Switzerland. She has presided over or participated in many important international or domestic research projects and International academic Conferences. She has independently written or co-authored more than 20 academic monographs either in Chinese or in English. Nearly 100 academic papers in academic journals are published or presented in or conferences proceedings.