Dr Sangwon Park is an Associate Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Coordinator of Tomorrow’s Guestrooms at Hotel ICON. Before joining the school in 2017, he taught at the University of Surrey in the UK and has served as Deputy of Hospitality Management. Dr Park has been awarded a PhD Degree from Temple University, USA (Business Administration) and received a Master's Degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management with a Statistics minor from the University of Missouri - Columbia, USA. His primary research interests include information technology in tourism and hospitality, online marketing, and labor productivity in the hospitality industry.
Dr Park has received a number of best paper awards. Other than the I-CHRIE best paper award in 2008, he has received several awards from renowned conferences in the area of information technology and tourism, such as the winner (1st place) of the ‘Journal Article of the Year Award’ at the ENTER 2013, 2nd place of the ‘Journal Article of the Year Award’ at ENTER 2014, 1st place of the award at ENTER 2016 Conference, and the Best Conference Paper award (3rd place) at ENTER 2017. Dr Park also obtained the Faculty Researcher of the Year 2014 at the University of Surrey as well as the 2019 Emerging Scholar of Distinction from the International Academy of the Study of Tourism.