{"id":1000963,"date":"2022-01-01T23:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=1000963"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:40:23","slug":"dr-yang-yang-begins-term-as-president-of-the-northeast-chapter-of-ttra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2022\/01\/01\/dr-yang-yang-begins-term-as-president-of-the-northeast-chapter-of-ttra\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yang Yang Begins Term as President of the Northeast Chapter of TTRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <strong data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"98\">Yang Yang<\/strong> has officially begun his term as President of the Northeast Chapter of the <em data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"213\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Travel and Tourism Research Association<\/span><\/span><\/em> (TTRA). In this leadership role, Dr. Yang will work to strengthen research collaboration, industry engagement, and knowledge exchange among tourism scholars and practitioners across the Northeast region. His presidency emphasizes advancing data-driven tourism research, supporting early-career scholars and graduate students, and fostering closer ties between academia, destination organizations, and industry partners, further reinforcing the chapter\u2019s role as a hub for rigorous and impactful tourism research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1000964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2022\/01\/01\/dr-yang-yang-begins-term-as-president-of-the-northeast-chapter-of-ttra\/image_20260106232126_217_326\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"326,95\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Image_20260106232126_217_326\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326-300x87.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000964\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg 326w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang Yang has officially begun his term as President of the Northeast Chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA). In this leadership role, Dr. Yang will work &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":1000964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106232126_217_326.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000960,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2021\/06\/05\/dr-yang-yang-speaks-on-the-use-of-geo-location-data-in-tourism-research-at-ttra-annual-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000963,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Speaks on the Use of Geo-location Data in Tourism Research at TTRA Annual Conference","author":"Yang Yang","date":"June 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang delivered an invited talk on a special panel at the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Annual Conference on June 15, 2021, focusing on the use of geo-location data in tourism research. In his presentation, Dr. Yang discussed how large-scale mobility and location-based data can be leveraged\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Event&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Event","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/event\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106231958_215_326.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106231958_215_326.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106231958_215_326.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106231958_215_326.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106231958_215_326.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1000984,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/06\/25\/from-keywords-to-journeys-dr-yang-yang-speaks-on-predicting-global-travel-interests-in-galway\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000963,"position":1},"title":"From Keywords to Journeys: Dr. Yang Yang Speaks on Predicting Global Travel Interests in Galway","author":"Yang Yang","date":"June 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang spoke at a featured session titled \u201cFrom Keywords to Journeys: Predicting Global Travel Interests\u201d at the TTRA annual conference. The session brings together thought leaders from Brand USA, Temple University, and Herrmann Global to examine how governments and destination marketing organizations can leverage international search data to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Event&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Event","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/event\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1748362180151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1748362180151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1748362180151.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1748362180151.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1001004,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2019\/08\/19\/dr-yang-yang-receives-emerging-scholar-of-distinction-award-from-the-international-academy-for-the-study-of-tourism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000963,"position":2},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Receives Emerging Scholar of Distinction Award from the International Academy for the Study of Tourism","author":"Yang Yang","date":"August 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month, Dr. Yang Yang was officially awarded the Emerging Scholar of Distinction Award by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. This prestigious honor recognizes early- to mid-career scholars who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to tourism research, theory development, and scholarly impact at an international level.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Award&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Award","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/award\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/award.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1000969,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/10\/09\/dr-yang-yang-serves-on-keynote-panel-at-nettra-2025-tourism-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000963,"position":3},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Serves on Keynote Panel at NETtra 2025 Tourism Conference","author":"Yang Yang","date":"October 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang participated as a keynote panelist at the NETtra 2025 Tourism Conference, held October 7\u201310 in Meredith, New Hampshire. The keynote panel, titled \u201cFrom Global to Local: The Impacts of Geopolitics and Current Affairs on Travel and Tourism,\u201d brought together leading scholars and industry research executives to examine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Event&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Event","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/event\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1000987,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/09\/16\/dr-yang-yang-delivers-iate-scholar-session-on-meta-analysis-in-tourism-economics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000963,"position":4},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Delivers IATE Scholar Session on Meta-Analysis in Tourism Economics","author":"Yang Yang","date":"September 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang delivered a featured Scholar Session as part of Tourism Economics in Focus, the research seminar series organized by the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE). 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