SPEAKERS

President at IFITT

Zheng Xiang is an Associate Professor in the Howard Feiertag Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the strategic implications of information technologies for the hospitality and tourism industry. He currently serves as President of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He has co-authored one textbook Tourism Information Technology (3rd edition) and co-edited two books related data analytics in hospitality and tourism management.

A number of Xiang’s co-authored articles have received Best Paper award in international journals and conferences. In May 2015, he received the “Emerging Scholar of Distinction” award from the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Recently, he was designated by the Web of Science Group as a “Highly Cited Researcher 2019” (top 1% among researchers around the world) based upon citations to his work in the last decade. Xiang holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Temple University and a Master of Science degree in Leisure Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.