8. International West Asia Congress of Tourism Research

Dogan GURSOY(Washington State University)

Dr. Dogan Gursoy is the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management, Carson College of Business at Washington State University and the editor of Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (SSCI IF: 12.5). Dr Gursoy has published over 200 research publications in refereed journals and 12 books. The scientific impact of his publications is evident in the cumulative h-factor of 86 and over 35,600 citations (google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p9ndUsYAAAAJ&hl=en). He is recognized and consistently ranked as one of the most prolific hospitality and tourism researchers worldwide. He is also ranked as the number 82 researcher in the United States in Business and Management category and the number 141 researcher worldwide in the same category. He is the recipient of the 2021 ICHRIE Lifetime Research Achievement Award and the 2019 University of Delaware's Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award. Dr. Gursoy is also one of the few hospitality and tourism scholars who received the Highly Cited Researcher Award and Recognition from Clarivate in 2021, 2022 and 2023. According to Clarivate, the Highly Cited Researcher Award recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. Clarivate states that of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000. His area of research includes services management, hospitality and tourism marketing, tourist behavior, travelers’ information search behavior, community support for tourism development, cross-cultural studies, consumer behavior, involvement, generational leadership, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and artificially intelligent device use in service delivery.

Hera OKTADIANA (James Cook University Australia)

Hera Oktadiana earned her Ph.D from the School of Hotel and Tourism Management-Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Certified Hospitality Educator from American Hotel & Lodging
Association (AHLA). She was the Head of Hospitality/Tourism at BINUS University and Bunda Mulia University, Indonesia. She joined James Cook University Australia as a Visiting Scholar in
2017, then as an Adjunct Associate Professor. She is also affiliated with Trisakti Tourism Institute’s postgraduate program. Hera has various publications and receives several awards for her research
and publications. Her primary research interest is in the area of tourist behaviour, particularly the Muslim tourists. She currently holds the position of Vice President at the International Tourism
Studies Association (ITSA) and serves as an Associate Editor and editorial board for reputable international tourism journals indexed in SCOPUS.

Topic: "Social and Psychological Factors Influencing Muslim Tourists' Behavior"

Prof. Dr. Beykan CİZEL (Akdeniz University)

Beykan Cizel is Professor and Head of the Department of Tourism Management at the Faculty of Tourism, Akdeniz University, Antalya. His research interests include e-tourism, tourist behaviour and tourism management with a focus on the social psychological perspective of tourist behaviour. He has published in tourism journals. In addition, he takes an active role in academic publishing activities as the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research Journal.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0474-9222

Topic: Tourism and Artificial Intelligence

Omar Moufakkir (Gulf University for Science and Technology)

Dr. Omar studied in Morocco, France, the Netherlands, and the US, where he received a PhD. from Michigan State University in Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources. He served in several management position including, head of business department, director of tourism management institute, director of research center, and dean of research and continuing education. He is board member of highly ranked journal in the field of tourism, hospitality, and leisure. He is widely published. His edited books are Tourism, Progress and Peace; Controversies in Tourism; The host Gaze in Tourism; and Ideological Social, and Cultural Aspects of Event. His research interest revolves around the sociology of tourism and consumer behavior. He is now professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.

Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University)

Assoc. Prof. Bekir Bora DEDEOĞLU

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Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu received his bachelor's degree from Mustafa Kemal University, Department of Tourism Management and Hotel Management in 2010, his master's degree from Mustafa Kemal University, Department of Tourism Management and Hotel Management in 2012, and his PhD degree from Akdeniz University, Department of Tourism Management in 2016. Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu started to work as a research assistant in Nevşehir University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Tourism Management in 2011. Since 2019, he has been working as an associate professor in the Department of Tourism Guidance at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University.

In 2022 and 2023, he was included in the list of influential scientists in 2% of the world based on Scopus data.

As of the beginning of 2023, he has 69 articles. 36 of these articles were published in journals indexed in SSCI and SCI-Expanded, 9 in ESCI and Scopus, 10 in TRDizin, and 14 in other international indexes. As of 2023, he has 25 international and one national proceedings. He has completed 7 master's theses and 1 doctoral thesis. In addition, he is still actively conducting 7 master's theses and 6 doctoral theses.

Orcid ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0722-3392

Üzeyir KEMENT (Ordu University)

Üzeyir Kement is an Associate Professor at Ordu University, Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Faculty of Tourism. His research interests include sustainable tourism, gastronomy and recreation with a focus on the social psychological perspective of tourist behavior. He has published in tourism journals. In addition, he takes an active role in academic publishing activities as the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism & Recreation Journal.

Topic: Data analysis in studies on tourism with SmartPLS

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