More about Yuting…

Yuting An is a Ph.D. student and a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at the University of Florida. She received her bachelor’s degree in international business back in China and her master’s degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management and MBA from Clemson University. Her primary research interests include tourist mobility, destination management, and tourism planning and development. The overall goal of her research is to use multiple-sourced data to investigate tourist movement patterns in different contexts. Specifically, by understanding tourist mobility patterns, she hopes to provide destination management organizations some insights on building better infrastructure, allocate resources and create attractive tourism packages to match tourists’ needs. Also, she hopes that her research can help major tourist destinations to address their overtourism problems and build a community that both tourists and residents enjoy. To reach her goals, she has been studying tourism planning and data-intensive techniques.