2nd GFort
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. MUHAMMAD ALIFF ASYRAFF BIN KAMAL NURZAMAN
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Dr. Muhammad Aliff Asyraff is a Senior Lecturer at the Tourism Management Department, Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He completed his entire academic formation at UiTM, beginning with a Diploma in Tourism Management in 2009, followed by a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Tourism Management in 2011 for which he received both the Best Student Award and the Vice Chancellor Award a Master of Tourism Management in 2013, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Hotel and Tourism Management in 2022. Before entering academia, he spent nearly a decade in the tourism industry, serving from 2013 to 2020 at the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (Tourism Malaysia) as Assistant Director and Special Officer to the Director General, where he held portfolios across domestic promotion and events, communication and publicity, foreign media and PATA affairs, and package development. His research concentrates on tourist behaviour, ecotourism and nature-based tourism, and the environmental moral obligations that shape traveller decisions, with recent work published in the Journal of Ecotourism, the Journal of Responsible Tourism Management, Tourism Review, Current Issues in Tourism, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, the latter examining crisis management and resiliency strategies among Malaysian homestay operators. He was named among the Top UiTM Q1 and Q2 Authors in 2024 and received his faculty’s Prolific Researcher and Best Researcher Awards in the same year. He currently supervises doctoral research on ecotourism resilience and on smart, community-based tourism models for women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises.
Dr. MANISA PIUCHAN
Chiang Mai University
Dr. Manisa Piuchan is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Tourism at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, with more than fifteen years of academic experience in teaching, research, and professional training. She holds a Doctor of Hotel and Tourism Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Business in International Tourism and Hospitality Management from Griffith University, Australia, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Tourism from Naresuan University, Thailand. Her scholarship centres on service experience design, tourism planning and development, wellness tourism, regenerative tourism, and emerging trends in tourism cities. She has published on wellness activity trends in hotels and resorts, on meditation retreat tourism in Thailand and its effects on tourists’ health and well-being, and on the expression of local cultures within Asian hospitality service, in journals including the Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, and Turizam. Her funded research has consistently addressed wellness at the destination scale, including the development of a wellness tourism destination and resource management system in Maerim District, Chiang Mai, a feasibility study of wellness lodgings across eight northern Thai provinces, and a policy planning collaboration on wellness tourism and community participation with the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute. She is also the author of three books in Thai, most recently Tourism Development: Concepts and Practices (2024).
Dr. Eunice Tan
Singapore Institute of Management
Dr. Eunice Tan (FHEA, D.HTM) is Head of Programme at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Academic Division, SIM Global Education, Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). Holding a Doctor of Hotel & Tourism Management from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, along with master’s degrees in International Tourism & Hospitality Management (Griffith University) and Communications Management (University of South Australia) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing & Public Relations (Curtin University of Technology), she brings interdisciplinary expertise in higher education, complemented by extensive leadership and operational experience in the services industry. She has over two decades of experience managing and teaching tourism and hospitality, events management, business, marketing, and communications programs, having held senior academic roles including College Deputy Director, Academic Head, and Discipline Lead. Prior to joining SIM in 2022, she was the Singapore Discipline Lead (Tourism and Events) at Murdoch University, Singapore, and in parallel served as Managing Partner and Principal Consultant of Enseigner Consulting Asia LLP, an independent consultancy specializing in education, training, and professional development. With over 30 years of senior service industry experience in general management, sales, marketing communications, and customer service management, she is an advocate for sustainable development, social equity, and climate action, and is committed to inclusive and compassionate pedagogies and eco-pedagogical approaches in higher education. Her research interests include sustainable and regenerative tourism, gastronomy and culinary tourism, intangible cultural heritage, community-based capacity building, gender studies in tourism, digitized tourism experiences, AI and sustainability, and AI applications in higher education, with a focus on sustainability, cultures, and communities in the Asia-Pacific region. She has received the Murdoch University Commendation Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2022) and several Best Paper awards, and is a Fellow of the UK’s AdvanceHE (FHEA).
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dewi Turgarini., S.S., MM.Par., ACICT., ACAITAS
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Dr. Dewi Turgarini is a lecturer at the Master’s Programme in Tourism, Graduate School of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, and the founder of Indogastrotourism, a travel enterprise specialising in gastronomic journeys. Her expertise lies in the planning and development of gastronomic tourism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Indonesian History from Universitas Padjadjaran, a master’s degree in Tourism Administration from the Bandung Institute of Tourism, and a doctorate in Tourism Studies from Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her professional practice is supported by an unusually broad set of national certifications, spanning tour consultancy, food production management, MICE organising, workplace assessment, and travel operations. Her research documents and defends Indonesian culinary heritage as a tourism resource, including studies on the preservation of Semanggi in Surabaya and Brongkos Kambing in Gunungkidul, gastronomic travel patterns in Bandung Regency and Central Jakarta, Muslim friendly Chinese-Indonesian gastronomy in Bogor, and the criteria by which gastronomic tourism villages may be managed more equitably the last two appearing as chapters in Routledge’s Current Issues in Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination Research. She is a frequent resource person for the Ministry of Tourism, Bank Indonesia, and the Indonesian Gastronomy Network, and has spoken on the regenerative dimension of gastronomy through education. Among her honours are the Satyalancana Karya Satya from the President of the Republic of Indonesia, recognition as a Guardian of Traditional Cuisine by the West Java Tourism Office, and Best Paper at the World Cultural Tourism Association Conference.
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