Autor: Andrew Le

Huong T. Bui is a professor at the College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan. She holds a Ph D in tourism management from Griffith University (Australia). Prior to her career in academia, Huong worked in the tourism industry and was a consultant for tourism development projects in South-east Asia for the World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV). She has received research grants from the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) on dark tourism, heritage tourism, and disaster risk management for the tourism sector in Asia. Her research expertise revolves around conflict resolution, crisis management, sustainable resource management and adaptive resilience of tourism destinations. She has published 40 journal articles in leading tourism journals and edited two books on tourism in Asia: Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia (2020, Routledge) and Nature-based Tourism in Asia Mountain”s Protected Area (2021, Springer).