{"id":1000969,"date":"2025-10-09T23:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=1000969"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:43:29","slug":"dr-yang-yang-serves-on-keynote-panel-at-nettra-2025-tourism-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/10\/09\/dr-yang-yang-serves-on-keynote-panel-at-nettra-2025-tourism-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yang Yang Serves on Keynote Panel at NETtra 2025 Tourism Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <strong data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"140\">Yang Yang<\/strong> participated as a keynote panelist at the <em data-start=\"183\" data-end=\"246\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">NETtra<\/span><\/span> 2025 Tourism Conference<\/em>, held October 7\u201310 in Meredith, New Hampshire. The keynote panel, titled <em data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"415\">\u201cFrom Global to Local: The Impacts of Geopolitics and Current Affairs on Travel and Tourism,\u201d<\/em> brought together leading scholars and industry research executives to examine how global uncertainty, geopolitics, and macroeconomic conditions are reshaping travel behavior and destination performance. Drawing on data-driven tourism research and policy analysis, Dr. Yang discussed how destinations and attractions can leverage advanced analytics to understand shifting demand patterns and develop proactive, resilient strategies in the face of ongoing global volatility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1000970\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/10\/09\/dr-yang-yang-serves-on-keynote-panel-at-nettra-2025-tourism-conference\/image_20260106233056_221_326\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"791,1024\" 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_20260106233056_221_326\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326-232x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000970\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Image_20260106233056_221_326-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":1000970,"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-1000969","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_20260106233056_221_326.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"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":1000969,"position":0},"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. 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Drawing on the Tourism Index developed by Temple University\u2019s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Dr. Yang highlighted the unprecedented scale\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/category\/media\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"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":1000969,"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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