Research direction: National Parks and Protected Areas Planning and Management，Tourism landscape and recreation planning and management

Dr. Feifei Xu is a professor and PhD supervisor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China. She is the Director of Centre for Ecotourism and Regional Development, Southeast University. Her research interests include national parks and protected areas, tourism landscape and recreation etc. Feifei has been a Principle Investigator in many research projects with funding sources from British academy, Chinese National Nature Science Foundation, World Animal Protection, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of People’s Republic of China, etc.. She has widely published in Tourism Management、Annals of Tourism Research、Journal of Sustainable Tourism etc. with more than 20 papers by SSCI journals and more than 70 Chinese key journals. She has also published 3 books in Chinese or English.

Professor Xu sits on the Standing Committee of Chinese Association of Tourism Geography. She is a fellow of UK National Higher Education Academy, a fellow of Royal Geography Society (RGS), and a member of Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA). She is also the Vice President of the Provincial Tourism Society in Jiangsu. She is a panel member of expert for Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Nanjing Tourism Bureau of Culture and Tourism.

She is the associate editor of “Tourism Review” editorial member of “Tourism Analysis” editorial member of “Protected Areas”. She has been awarded 3rd prize for excellent research by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of People’s Republic of China, 1st Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, 3rd prize of Nanjing Philosophy and Social Science. She has also been awarded best research paper awards. She is a winner of Outstanding Young Teacher Talent Program of Southeast University.