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Tang Yong, is a professor of tourism geography at the College of Geography and Planning, the Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT). Much of his work focuses on behavioral geography, heritage and cultural tourism, and tourist destination planning and marketing, and tourism statistics, especially landscape history, issues of public memory and commemoration following the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008. He served as director of the Collaborative Education Program between Chengdu University of Technology and Edge Hill University in Tourism Management, involving teaching management, and project development. He was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to visit the Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Geography Department at the University of Connecticut at Storrs as a visiting scholar to work with Professor K. E. Foote on the research into "Remembering Natural Hazards: Public Memory of Natural Disasters in Historical Context." His recent research has also focused on "Dark tourism to the seismic memorial sites". Among his publications in this area are Contested Narratives at the Hanwang Earthquake Memorial Park: Where Ghost Industrial Town and Seismic Memorial Meet, co-authored Memorial Landscapes of Earthquakes: Landscape Perceptions and Sense of Place, and co-authored The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: Dark Tourism, Seismic Memorials, and Disaster Rituals.
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