{"id":1000981,"date":"2022-08-06T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=1000981"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:59:25","slug":"dr-yang-yang-elected-fellow-of-the-international-association-for-china-tourism-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2022\/08\/06\/dr-yang-yang-elected-fellow-of-the-international-association-for-china-tourism-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yang Yang Elected Fellow of the International Association for China Tourism Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <strong data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"114\">Yang Yang<\/strong> has been elected as a Fellow of the <em data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"190\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">International Association for China Tourism Studies<\/span><\/span><\/em> (IACTS). This distinction recognizes his sustained and impactful contributions to tourism research, particularly in advancing the understanding of China\u2019s tourism economy through rigorous empirical analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship. His election as Fellow reflects both his academic leadership and his influence within the international China tourism research community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1000982\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2022\/08\/06\/dr-yang-yang-elected-fellow-of-the-international-association-for-china-tourism-studies\/picture3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png\" data-orig-size=\"624,290\" 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=\"Picture3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3-300x139.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000982\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png 624w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang Yang has been elected as a Fellow of the International Association for China Tourism Studies (IACTS). This distinction recognizes his sustained and impactful contributions to tourism research, particularly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":1000982,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/Picture3.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000978,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2024\/08\/06\/dr-yang-yang-elected-to-the-executive-council-of-the-international-association-for-tourism-economics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000981,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Elected to the Executive Council of the International Association for Tourism Economics","author":"Yang Yang","date":"August 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang has been elected as an Executive Council Member of the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE). 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