The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development (ePub)

Sandeep K. Walia, PhD is presently working as Professor and Deputy Dean in the School of Hotel Management and Tourism at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He is an alumnus of Himachal Pradesh University Shimla and IGNOU, New Delhi. Dr Walia is associated as Visiting Faculty to School of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia Kedah (a QS-ranked University), Malaysia, and Himalayan Institutes of Alternative Learning (an upcoming Mountain University) in Leh, Laddakh, as Curriculum Development/Board of Studies Expert and Visiting Faculty. His areas of interest are community-based tourism, tourism marketing and cultural tourism. He has worked as Program Director/ Paper Coordinator for the subject Aviation Industry - Ticketing and Frontier Formalities and developed E-content under MHRD Sponsored UGC Project titled EPG Pathshala for the online learning of Postgraduate Level. He has also acted as a faculty coordinator for Peer to Peer: Facebook Global Digital Challenge Spring 2017. Dr Walia is Founder Editor in Chief of the Tourism and Hospitality Research Review (International Journal of LPU), and the Managing Editor and Editor for the journals Tourism Dimensions and Tourism Spectrum (both international refereed journals). He has authored 9 books and 15 research papers in various Scopus and ABDC Journals.