Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Co-Founder, Information Technology & Tourism; Founding Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Founding Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Founding Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Founding President, In’t Academy for the Study of Tourism; Co-Founder, UN Tourism Ulysses Prize; Co-Founder, Trinet; with Honorary Doctorates from the Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain; Universidade do Algarve, Portugal; and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Lifetime Honorary Professorship, Bundelkhand University, India; Visiting Professor, University of Isfahan, Iran, and SunYat-sen University, China; Special Advisor to the UN Tourism, Spain; and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA

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