About Me:
Yuying Huang is a current PhD candidate in Marketing and a teaching assistant for courses at UC Business School. She is from Fujian, China. Before coming to New سԹin late 2019, she worked as a senior planner for two years in an advertising agency in China. She is also passionate about food and loves discovering local cuisines and restaurants. She enjoys fishing and photography as personal hobbies.
Research Interests:
Food tourism; Destination restaurant; Sustainability; Place attachment; Servicescape.
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Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing, 2022-now, سԹ, New Zealand.
Master of Commerce with Distinction in Marketing, 2020-2021, سԹ, New Zealand.
Bachelor of Management in Marketing 2013-2017, Jimei University, China.
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Publications:
Huang, Y., Hall, C. M., & Chen, N. (2024). Destination restaurants’ practices and the production of locality: The case of Michelin restaurants in China. Foods, 13(12), 1838. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13121838
Huang, Y., Chen, N. C., & Hall, C. M. (2024). A child play-and-learn area contributing to urban regeneration: A case in Christchurch, New Zealand. New سԹGeographer, 80(1), 44-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12376
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., & Chen, N.C. (2023). The characteristics of Michelin-starred restaurants in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 31, 100673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgfs.2023.100673
Huang, Y., Hall, C. M., & Chen, N. (2023). The sustainability characteristics of Michelin Green Star Restaurants. Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/15378020.2023.2235258
Huang, Y., & Hall, C. M. (2023). Locality in the promoted sustainability practices of Michelin-Starred restaurants. Sustainability, 15(4), 3672. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043672
Chen, X., Huang, J., & Huang, Y. (2023). Impacts of sibling and gender on supplementary education opportunities in China. Cogent Education, 10(1), 2166309. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2023.2166309
Huang, Y., Finsterwalder, J., Chen, N.C., & Crawford, F.R.L. (2022). Online student engagement and place attachment to campus in the new service marketplace: An exploratory study. Journal of Services Marketing, 36(4), 597-611. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsm-04-2021-0148
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., Bryden, A., Du, Y., Koupaei, S.N., Lyes, K., Marquez, V., Shaw, M., & Thomas, D. (2022). The characteristics of destination restaurants. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 20(2), 1-30. https://johat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1.pdf
Conference Presentations:
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., & Chen, N.C. (2022). Chefs at destination restaurants: An international analysis. In Y. Secim et al. (Ed.), International Aşçı Dede Ateşbâz ı Veli Symposium: Abstracts book (pp. 55). Matsis Matbaa Sistemleri.
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., & Chen, N.C. (2022). Promoting local food products in destination restaurants: An international analysis. In E. Figueiredo & J. Couto (Ed.), STRINGS Conference - Selling the rural in urban areas - The role of local food products in the sustainable development of rural areas – Book of abstracts (pp.144-146). University of Aveiro.
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., & Chen, N.C. (2022). How significant is sustainability in destination restaurants? In D. Varadzhakova (Ed.), Contemporary tourism challenges: Proceedings of the international scientific conference (pp. 10-18). Avangard Prima.
Huang, Y., Hall, C.M., & Chen, N.C. (2022). Does attachment to a thrid place influence individual behaviours across different geographcial scales?: The case of the Imagination Station. In D. Wang, P. Guchait, & J. Draper (Ed.), The 27th annual graduate education and graduate student research conference in hospitality and tourism: Conference proceedings (pp. 9). Univeristy of Houston, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Other:
From 2020 to 2022, Yuying Huang volunteered as a play assistant and volunteer leader at the Imagination Station in Tūranga, Christchurch Central سԹ, a creative space where visitors engage with LEGO, involving the local community.
Why did you choose UC?
It has a beautiful campus in a stunning country. UC's Business School is ranked 1st in New سԹand 12th globally in Hospitality & Tourism Management in the 2024 Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects.
Best things about study at UC:
My 5-year life at UC is much more than studying, but also learnt how to achieve work-life balance, how to set a goal and achieve it, and how to see inside of myself.
