Faculty Information - SUN Yiyang

■ Education

1.		〔Doctorial Course〕 Hospitality & Tourism ICT, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Completed, PhD
2.		〔Master Course〕, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Completed, MSc with Credit
3.		Hotel, Restaurant, & Resort Management, Department of Hospitality Management, Northwood University, Graduated, BA with Distinction

■ Message

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Work hard and meet your better self.

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Advance knowledge, give back to society, and push human civilization forward.

■ Current research

I am currently researching about mobile payment revolution, its application and its development in hospitality and tourism within the Asia Pacific Region.

■ Current specialized field

Information network, Web informatics, Serviceinformatics, Management, Commerce (Key Word：Consumer behavior, hotel reservation, mobile payment, hospitality, tourism)

■ Books and theses

1.		Other	How to transform and upgrade hotels in Japan to JP Hotel+ in the post-COVID-19 age? (Collaboration)
2.	2024/03	Article	Symbolic interactionism: Exploring the experience of traditional costume in a destination. pp.NA (Collaboration)
3.	2024/01	Article	Tourists’ Perception of Health Tourism Before and After COVID-19. pp.NA (Collaboration)
4.	2023/01	Article	The Influence of Time Orientation on Infection Risk Evaluation: Moderating Role of Public Health Crisis. pp.NA (Collaboration)
5.	2022/12	Article	A Case Study in Hong Kong - Developing Qualification Framework for Hotel Frontline Staff. pp.NA (Collaboration)
6.	2022/12	Article	Influencing Factors of Students’ Learning Gains in Tourism Education: An Empirical Study on 28 Tourism Colleges in China. 14(24),pp.16601 (Collaboration)
7.	2022/09	Article	A Proposed DISE Approach for Tourist Destination Crisis Management. 14(17),pp.11009 (Collaboration)
8.	2022/08	Article	A Review of Robotic Applications in Hospitality and Tourism Research. 14(17),pp.10827 (Collaboration)
9.	2022/08	Article	Health Tourism Evolution: A Review Based on Bibliometric Analysis and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database. 14(16),pp.10435 (Collaboration)
10.	2022/06	Article	Hindrances to smart tourism development. 13(4),pp.763-778 (Collaboration)
11.	2022/06	Article	Value proposition of smartphone destination marketing: The cases of Hong Kong and South Korea. 44(1),pp.187-209 (Collaboration)
12.	2022/01	Article	Perception, Reaction, and the Future Development of the influence of COVID-19 on the Hospitality and Tourism Industry in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(2),pp.991-1009 (Collaboration)
13.	2021/09	Article	An investigation of developing smart tourism from the perspective of stakeholders. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 26(10),pp.1156-1170 (Collaboration)
14.	2021/07	Article	Impacts of Mobile Payment-related Attributes on Consumers’ Repurchase Intention. International Journal of Tourism Research 24(1),pp.44-57 (Collaboration)
15.	2021/03	Article	Tourism crisis management: evidence from COVID-19. Current Issues in Tourism 24(9),pp.2671-2682 (Collaboration)
16.	2020/07	Article	An investigation of the moderating effects of current job position level and hotel work experience between technology readiness and technology acceptance International Journal of Hospitality Management 90,pp.NA (Collaboration)
17.	2020/06	Article	The impact of cultural values on the acceptance of hotel technology adoption from the perspective of hotel employees Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 44,pp.61-69 (Collaboration)
18.	2020/02	Article	Impact of Robot Hotel Service on Consumers’ Purchase Intention: A Control Experiment 25(7),pp.780-798 (Collaboration)
19.	2020/02	Article	Tourists’ Travel-related Information Search Channels International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration NA,pp.NA (Collaboration)
20.	2020/01	Article	Mediating effects of attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control for mobile payment-based hotel reservations International Journal of Hospitality Management 84 (Collaboration)
21.	2019/12	Article	An updated review of tourism-related experimental design articles Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 25(7),pp.710-720 (Collaboration)
22.	2019/12	Article	Movement Patterns of Tourists Tourism Management 75,pp.318-322 (Collaboration)
23.	2019/11	Article	Exploring the Service Quality of Airbnb Tourism Analysis 24(4),pp.531-534 (Collaboration)
24.	2019/11	Article	Mobile Payment Failure during Travel Journal of China Tourism Research 17(1),pp.73-89 (Collaboration)
25.	2019/11	Article	Stakeholders’ perceptions of heritage tourism sites development in China. Tourism Recreation Research 45(1),pp.132-138 (Collaboration)
26.	2019/08	Article	Hotel technology: a perspective article Tourism Review 75(1),pp.286-289 (Collaboration)
27.	2019/01	Article	Impact of cultural values on technology acceptance and technology readiness International Journal of Hospitality Management 77,pp.89-96 (Collaboration)
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■ Conference presentations

1.	2022/02	Evaluation of Robot Application in Hospitality (ICHICD 2022: 16. International Conference on Hospitality Industry and Customer Demands.)
2.	2020/10	Understand the consumer behaviour of hotel robot use (APacCHRIE 2020 [online])
3.	2020/01	Electronic Distribution Channels of Airline Ticket (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2020)
4.	2017/04	How does Mobile Technology Achieve Value Co-creation in Tourism? (2017 International Symposium on Business and Management)
5.	2017/01	Channels for Searching Hotel and Travel Information (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2017)

■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

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2021/04～2025/03

How to transform and upgrade hotels in Japan to JP Hotel+ in the post-COVID-19 age? (Key Word : Hotels, Japan, JP Hotel+ , post-COVID-19)

■ Awards and honors

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2024/04

Top Cited Article 2023: SUNNY SUN whose paper has been recognized as a top cited paper* in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH

■ Qualification and licenses

1.

2017/06/15

Certified Hospitality Educator

■ Homepage

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■ JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number

00869191

■ External Researcher ID

orcID

0000-0002-4508-854X

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