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Dr. Yanyan Zheng

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Hospitality, Event and Tourism Management

Email: yanyan.zheng@unt.edu

Education

  • 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
  • MA, St. John's University, 2015
    Major: East Asian Studies

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • EDEM 1600 - Introduction to Global Event Management, 1 course.
  • HMGT 5630 - Advanced Convention and Event Management, 1 course.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • 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