Dr Vincent Tung received his PhD in Management, specializing in Tourism and Marketing at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on tourism and society, with an aim towards understanding tourists’ experience as well as residents’ attitudes in host-guest relations that are crucial for sustainable destination development. He has range of supplementary research interests, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and higher education. 

Vincent is not a high-volume publishing researcher; instead, he believes truly good research takes time and should be fun. He finds joy in the research process itself, pursuing conceptually rigorous work with the potential to genuinely move the field. For example, his seminal articles on memorable tourism experiences and customer experiences with robotics are both amongst the top 10 and top 20 highest cited papers of all time in Annals of Tourism Research, and International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, respectively. He is an Associate Editor for Annals of Tourism Research, and is listed in the World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists as released by Stanford University since 2021 (i.e., amongst the top 5 at PolyU SHTM in Sport, Leisure & Tourism). Vincent takes pride in mentoring and supervising doctoral students as well as aspiring scholars from various countries, such as Canada, China, Cyprus, Iran, Malawi, Singapore, and Thailand, encouraging them to develop a sincere interest in research and published their work as lead authors in top tier tourism journals. 

As a teacher, Vincent holds himself to high standards to provide a challenging yet fair experience by treating students with respect and patience. He has received excellent student evaluations and have taught various undergraduate (e.g., China Tourism, Destination Management, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hospitality, Tourism, and Events) as well as postgraduate subjects (e.g., Theories and Concepts in Tourism, Research Methods, and Tourism Development in Asia). In essence, he strives to be the teacher that he would want as a student.

Finally, Vincent embraces knowledge sharing of tourism research and education within PolyU SHTM and across the wider community. Internally, he is the Subject Area Coordinator for the Tourism Management program, and serves on the university-level Institutional Review Board for granting ethical clearance for research projects. Externally, he is a member of the Training Committee at the Travel Industry Council (TIC) of Hong Kong, and served as External Examiner for the Hospitality Management Programmes of Lingnan Institute of Further Education, as well as an external member of the Programme Validation Panel for the Higher Diploma in Tourism Management of the Hong Kong College of Technology. At the secondary education-level, he served on the One Committee for Tourism and Hospitality Studies of the Hong Kong Curriculum Development Council (CDC) and Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA).

• PhD (University of Calgary)
• MBA (University of Calgary)
• BComm (University of Calgary)