Dr. Yanyan Zheng
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas
Department of Hospitality, Event and Tourism Management
Email: yanyan.zheng@unt.edu
Education
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PhD, University of Central Florida, 2023
Major: Hospitality Management
Dissertation: What I Talk About When I Talk About Yijing: A Holistic Framework of Tourists' Aesthetic Experience -
MS, University of Central Florida, 2018
Major: Hospitality and Tourism Management
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MA, St. John's University, 2015
Major: East Asian Studies
Teaching
Teaching Experience
- EDEM 1600 - Introduction to Global Event Management, 1 course.
- HMGT 5630 - Advanced Convention and Event Management, 1 course.
University of North Texas
Research
Published Intellectual Contributions
- Zheng, Y., Wei, W., Zhang, L., Ying, T. (2024). Tourist Gaze at Chinese Classical Gardens: The Embodiment of Aesthetics (Yijing) in Tourism. Other. 48 (2) 353-379. SAGE Publications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10963480221085958
- Zhang, L., Wei, W., Rathjens, B., Zheng, Y. (2023). Pet influencers on social media: The joint effect of message appeal and narrator. International Journal of Hospitality Management. 110 103453. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103453
- Zheng, Y., Fu, X., Li, M. (2022). Reification in tourism: An investigation of visitors’ interpretation of omamori. Other. 24 100706. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2022.100706
- Wei, W., Zheng, Y., Zhang, L., Line, N. (2022). Leveraging customer-to-customer interactions to create immersive and memorable theme park experiences. Other. 5 (3) 647-662. Emerald. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhti-10-2020-0205
- Ying, T., Tan, X., Wei, W., Zheng, Y., Ye, S., Wu, M. (2021). “I have to watch my back”: Exploring Chinese hotel guests’ generalized distrust and coping behavior. Tourism Management. 86 104355. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104355
- Zheng, Y., Wei, W., Line, N., Zhang, L. (2021). Integrating the tourist gaze with the social servicescape: Implications for creating memorable theme park experiences. International Journal of Hospitality Management. 93 102782. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102782
- McGinley, S., Wei, W., Zhang, L., Zheng, Y. (2021). The State of Qualitative Research in Hospitality: A 5-Year Review 2014 to 2019. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. 62 (1) 8-20. SAGE Publications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1938965520940294