328 D.Lin,D.Simmons Tourism Management 63(2017)315-328 Dan Lin is Assistant Professor and Director of Tourism David is Professor of Tourism and chair of the University Development Research Centre at Shenzhen Tourism Col- Research Committee at Lincoln University.New Zealand. lege,Jinan University.China.She obtained her PhD in the His interests are in sustainable tourism and destination University of Sheffield.Her research interests lie in the governance.planning and management.He has lead interface of environmental/ecological policy and urban multi-disciplinary teams examining the financial.eco- and regional growth management.She is currently leading nomic and sustainable yield from tourism,and developed research projects on critical thinking and analysis of the texts and toolkits for tourism planning.Most recently he politics of urban and regional sustainable tourism man- has been engaged as a member of the writing team for agement interventions,and innovative exploration to the New Zealand National Tourism Framework and annual consider how these policy interventions can be improved state of sector reports.From 2008 to 2010 he was Director in a transnational economy. of Research for the Australian Federal Government's 'Sus- tainable Tourism CRC'.Dan Lin is Assistant Professor and Director of Tourism Development Research Centre at Shenzhen Tourism Col￾lege, Jinan University, China. She obtained her PhD in the University of Sheffield. Her research interests lie in the interface of environmental/ecological policy and urban and regional growth management. She is currently leading research projects on critical thinking and analysis of the politics of urban and regional sustainable tourism man￾agement interventions, and innovative exploration to consider how these policy interventions can be improved in a transnational economy. David is Professor of Tourism and chair of the University Research Committee at Lincoln University, New Zealand. His interests are in sustainable tourism and destination governance, planning and management. He has lead multi-disciplinary teams examining the financial, eco￾nomic and sustainable yield from tourism, and developed texts and toolkits for tourism planning. Most recently he has been engaged as a member of the writing team for the New Zealand National Tourism Framework and annual state of sector reports. From 2008 to 2010 he was Director of Research for the Australian Federal Government's ‘Sus￾tainable Tourism CRC’. 328 D. Lin, D. Simmons / Tourism Management 63 (2017) 315e328