Min ZHANG

PhD candidate of the Tourism & Leisure program.
Member of the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET).

Department of Geography, Faculty of Tourism & Geography, Rovira i Virgili University.

 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3061-3134
minzhanglucy@126.com
 
ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Min_Zhang173
 

Min (Lucy) ZHANG currently is a PhD candidate at the University of Rovira i Virgili. She had been a research fellow at the University of Surrey (U.K) 2017-18 as a part of PhD training program. 

She has been engaged in working with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural professionals to make tourism play a pivoal role for sustainable local development through project design and implementation, with principal concerns of community participation, and creating shared value. She is a member of the Shared Value Initiative (Harvard University & FSG) and she has worked closely with international organizations like UNESCO and UNDP on various projects in China.

Selected recent publications

  • M, ZHANG. (2019) Boundaries or Borders? Transformation from Ethnic Cultural Representation to Place Identity. Tourism, Culture and Communication. 2019 (3).
  • M, ZHANG. & L, ZENG. (2016) Witness a breakthrough of colonial heritage for sustainable tourism and local development-Jianshui case, Yunnan. In Verdni, G. & Ceccarelli, P. (eds) Creative Small Settlement. Culture-Based Solutions for Local Sustainable Development. University of Westminster, London. Pgs 10-20.
  • Y, JIANG. & M, ZHANG.(2013) Evaluation on ecological sustainability of tourist destinations based on PSR model—a case study of Yulong county, Yunnan China. Resource Science. 35 (2): 332-340.
  • Y, JIANG. Z, SONG & M, ZHANG. (2013) Ecological compensation to tourist destinations: progress and prospect. Resource Science, 35 (11): 2194-2201.

Selected recent conferences, keynotes, invited lectures and presentations

  • Power in Community-based Tourism: Transformation from CSR to CSV. Forum on Integration and Development of Culture and Tourism. Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China. 2018. Presentation

  • Tea-Horse Trail Cultural Route in China: Theory and Practice. Council of Europe & European Institute of Cultural Routes International Forum. 2017. Presentation

  • Boundaries or Borders? Transformation from Ethnic Cultural Representation to Place Identity. 6th International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality between China and Spain. Madrid, Spain. 2016. Presentation.

  • Witness a breakthrough of colonial heritage for sustainable tourism and local development. International seminar on Small Settlements and the Cultural Dimension of Urbanization in China. Paris, France. 2016. Presentation.
  • UNESCO International Conference on Culture for Sustainable Cities. Hangzhou, China, 2015. Presentation