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250-371-5784

Email

yhu@tru.ca

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Yaou Hu

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism
Tourism Management

Summary

My research aims to advance the understanding of service innovation and sustainability in tourism and hospitality by exploring the intersections of consumer behavior, employee well-being, and emerging technologies. I strive to produce socially meaningful and methodologically rigorous scholarship that informs academic discourse, industry practice, and public policy, both nationally and globally.

Expertise, interests and research

  Marketing and Consumer Behaviour    Organizational Behaviour/Human Resources    Sustainability    Technology    Tourism


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