Biography

  • Bing Pan, Ph.D., Professor in Commercial Recreation and Tourism, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management (RPTM), College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University
  • Interim Professor-in-Charge, RPTM Graduate Program (2023).
  • Faculty affiliate, the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)
  • Faculty affiliate, the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
  • Academic research interests in big data and data analytics in tourism and parks, information technology, e-commerce, destination marketing, agent-based simulations, and well-being and tourism
  • Consulting experience in economic impact analysis, intercept surveys, market research, and ROI analysis
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Tourism Analysis, Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research, and editorial board member of Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Information Technology and Tourism, and Journal of China Tourism Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Tribune, Tourism Research Prospects
  • An advisor at Travel Unity.
  • Co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee in RPTM with an initiative named Lunch Circles
  • Founding president of the Northeast Chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (NETTRA)
  • Associate professor and director, Office of Tourism Analysis, College of Charleston, 2005 – 2016
  • Visiting associate professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,  2012 – 2013
  • Google Scholar
  • 中文简介

EDUCATION

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Information Science, 2003-2005, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Ph.D., Department of Leisure Studies, 2003, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
    Dissertation: Travel Information search on the Internet: An exploratory study (PDF) (Presentation)
  • M.S., Natural Geography, 1998, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • B.S., Tourism Planning and Management, 1995, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China