Dr. Yi Liu is an associate professor and assistant dean of the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University. He currently serves as the Chief Secretary of the Commission on Tourism Geography of the Geographical Society of China, and the Chief Secretary of the Tourism Poverty Alleviation Alliance of the Ministry of Education of China. He is also the co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Tourism Forum (in Chinese) and associate editor for the Journal of Humanities of Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature).