Faculty Bio
HaoXiaofei
AssociateProfessor, PhD supervisor
School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-senUniversity
Email: haoxiaof@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Research Interests
Women Leisure & Digital Media
Game study & Esports Industries
Visual culture & Visual methods
Media Geography & Communication
Educational Qualifications
[Ph.D., Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin.]
[M.S., College of Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University.]
[B.M., College of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University.]
Positions
[2023.10– 2024.10, DeputyDean, SchoolofTourismManagement, Xinjiang University]
[2019.01-present, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University]
[2015.03-2018.12, Lecturer, Sun Yat-sen University]
Selected Papers and Publications
- Xiaofei Hao(corresponding author), Enrong Jiang, Yazhuo Chen. The sign Avatar and tourists’ practice at Pandora: A semiological perspective on a film related destination. Tourism Management, 2023,101: 104856.
- Zifan He, Xiaofei Hao(corresponding author).Emotional labor and employee well-being in cross-cultural contexts: A Disney frontline staff's autoethnography. Tourism Management, 2022, 91(8): 104518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104518.
- Yichen Wang, Xiaofei Hao(corresponding author).Virtual nexus: Female players’ emotional attachment in a role-playing video game. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2022,28(2): 488-505. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221089212.
- Shuting Mai, Xiaofei Hao(corresponding author). Older women’s identity reconstruction in leisure spaces: a case of Guangzhou, China. Leisure Studies, 2020,39(3):419-432.
- Xiaofei Hao, Shuojing Xu, Xiaoming Zhang. Barrage participation and feedback in travel reality shows: The effects of media on destination image among Generation Y. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2019,12: 27-36.
- Zhao Zhao, Minmin Zhu, Xiaofei Hao(corresponding author). Share the Gaze: representation of destination image on the Chinese social platform WeChat Moments, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. 2018,35(6):726-739.
- Hao, X. (2016). Motion Pictures and the Image of the City. A Documentary Interpretation. Springer VS. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-14340-4.
- Hao, X. (2015，2020). Film tourism. IN Jafar Jafari & Honggen Xiao Eds., Encyclopedia of Tourism (2015，2020). Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_86-1.
Selected Honors and Awards
[2022, Outstanding Class Teacher, School of Tourism, Sun Yat-sen University]
[2022, Best Supervisor, The Fifth National Student Tourism Design Competition]
Research and Project Grants
[National Social Science Foundation of China: "Research onWomen's Spaces and Women's Leisure Practices from a Digital Geography Perspective", Grant No. 42371241.]
[National Social Science Foundation of China (Youth Fund):"Research on the Process and Mechanism of Constructing Symbolic Space in Film Tourism Based on the Perspective of Media Geography", Grant No.41801125.]
[Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund, Ministry of Education (Youth Fund): "Research on the Mechanism of Constructing Symbolic Space in Tourist destinationsBased on Film and Television Media Representation", Grant No.18YJCZH045.]
[Culture and Tourism Macro Decision-making Project: "Research on the Sustainable Mode of Film and Television Promoting the Development of Cultural and Tourism Resources", Grant No.2021HGJCG015.]
[Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Youth Elevation Program):"Research on the Mechanism and Effect of Innovative Development for the Integration of E-sports Industry and Local Culture and Tourism Industries from the Perspective of System Theory", Grant No.2024A1515030106.]
