Education: AA, University of Maryland 1980; BS, Georgia State University 1984; MSc, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1985; PhD, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1990

Career: Kaye Kye-Sung Chon is Chair Professor of Hotel and Tourism Management and Director of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A former hotel manager and tourism industry consultant, Professor Chon previously held academic positions at the University of Houston, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Virginia Tech in the US. During his academic career, he received numerous visiting professorships, research fellowships and visiting lectureships from universities around the world, including Université d'Angers (France), University of Innsbruck (Austria), Rikkyo University (Japan), Wuhan University (China), Siam University (Thailand), Hainan University (Chna), Griffith University (Australia), Shanghai Normal University (China), Prince of Songkla University (Thailand), Hallym University (Korea), University of Delaware (USA), Oklahoma State University (USA) and University of Tennessee (USA). One of Professor Chon’s co-authored books, Welcome to Hospitality: An Introduction, has been adopted as a textbook in more than 100 hospitality education programmes world-wide. An active member of the scholarly community, Professor Chon is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research and Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (see url below). Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Haworth Hospitality Press of New York and of the Haworth Hospitality Book Series. He has also served as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Business Research, Pacific Tourism Review and Tourism Recreation Research, and has served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen international journals in hospitality, tourism and marketing. Professor Chon is the past President and Chairman of the International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators, Founder of the Annual Conference on Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research in Hospitality and Tourism (held annually since 1996), the Biennial Conference on Tourism in Asia (held biennially since 1993), the Pan-American Conference on Tourism (first held in 1999), Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Students Research in Tourism (held annually since 2002), and Asia Pacific International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (held annually since 2003)

Honours and awards: Teaching Excellence Award, College of Human Resources, Virginia Tech 1990, John Wiley & Sons Award, Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education 1993, Sam and Boyd Distinguished Professor Award for Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1994, Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Research, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston 1996, Martin Oppermann Memorial Award, International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators 1999, Micheal D. Olsen Award, University of Delaware 2002, Most Outstanding Alumni in 30 Years Award, Georgia State University Cecil B. Day School 2003, Fred Tibbitts Associates Hospitality Humanitarian Award 2003, Founders Award, Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research Award 2005, Howard B. Meek Award, International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education 2007

Publications include: The Management of Hotel Sales and Marketing (editor) 1991, Tourism in Developing Countries (co-author) 1997, Practice of Graduate Research in Hospitality & Tourism (editor) 1999, Japanese Tourists: Socio-Economic, Marketing and Psychological Analysis (co-editor) 2000, Tourism in Southeast Asia: A New Direction (editor) 2000, Welcome to Hospitality (co-author, second edition) 2000, Convention Tourism: International Research and Industry Perspectives (co-author) 2002; four monographs and more than 200 articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room HJ801a, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China; Tel: +852 2766-6382; Fax: +852 2362 6422; Email: hmkchon@polyu.edu.hk ; Website: http://hotelschool.shtm.polyu.edu.hk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10941665.asp/ .