Hongliang Yan (BA, MSc, MA, PhD, PGCHE) is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He started his academic career in tourism and hospitality management in 2004. His research interests are in tourism, modernity and sustainable development which relates to the themes of tourism planning and policy making, governance, destination management, tourism and identity building. He has published widely on heritage tourism, tourism modernity and identity building, and tourism planning.