{"id":1000987,"date":"2025-09-16T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=1000987"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:19:28","slug":"dr-yang-yang-delivers-iate-scholar-session-on-meta-analysis-in-tourism-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/09\/16\/dr-yang-yang-delivers-iate-scholar-session-on-meta-analysis-in-tourism-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yang Yang Delivers IATE Scholar Session on Meta-Analysis in Tourism Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <strong data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"150\">Yang Yang<\/strong> delivered a featured Scholar Session as part of <em data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"227\">Tourism Economics in Focus<\/em>, the research seminar series organized by the <em data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"313\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">International Association for Tourism Economics<\/span><\/span><\/em> (IATE). Titled <em data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"412\">\u201cMeta-Analysis in Tourism Economics: Synthesizing Evidence, Advancing Knowledge,\u201d<\/em> the seminar examined how meta-analytic methods can be used to systematically synthesize empirical findings, address heterogeneity across studies, and strengthen cumulative knowledge in tourism economics. Dr. Yang highlighted best practices in research design, effect-size interpretation, and policy-relevant inference, offering methodological guidance for scholars seeking more robust and generalizable evidence in tourism and hospitality research.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GB_SUXyngXk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1000988\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/09\/16\/dr-yang-yang-delivers-iate-scholar-session-on-meta-analysis-in-tourism-economics\/attachment\/1755083950234\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234.png\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" 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=\"1755083950234\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234-1024x576.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000988\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234.png 1280w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2026\/01\/1755083950234-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). Titled \u201cMeta-Analysis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":1000988,"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-1000987","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\/1755083950234.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1001129,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2026\/02\/15\/dr-yang-delivers-webinar-on-big-data-in-tourism-research-at-iae-perpignan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000987,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Yang Delivers Webinar on Big Data in Tourism Research at IAE Perpignan","author":"Yang Yang","date":"February 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang was recently invited to deliver a research seminar for the Master\u2019s program in Tourism at IAE Perpignan, part of the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. 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