Dr. Xu Dong holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from Nanjing Normal University, where he also earned his Master’s degree. He completed his postdoctoral research in Geography at Nanjing University and was a Visiting Scholar at The University of Hong Kong. He is currently a specially appointed “Young Top Talent” Professor, Associate Professor, and Master’s Supervisor at Yangzhou University. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of culture, tourism, and tourism geography, with particular interests in flow of space and big data applications in tourism, tourism economy and environmental impact assessment, and the cultural-ecological effects of rural tourism.

        Dr. Xu has led over 10 research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a major special sub-project of the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) on heritage, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Fund. He has also been a core member of six general projects of the NSFC. In addition, he has led or participated in more than 40 planning projects related to urban planning, rural planning, and cultural tourism development.

        He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading domestic and international journals such as Tourism Management, Tourism Geographies, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Acta Geographica Sinica, Journal of Natural Resources, Geographical Research, Economic Geography, Human Geography. He independently published an academic monograph titled "Research on the Cultural Stress Effect of Rural Tourism Destinations". Dr. Xu was awarded the Second Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Sciences (as the first awardee). He was named a “CNKI Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar” for both 2024 and 2025. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Researches on Dietetic Science and Culture, Vice Chair of the Youth Branch of the Jiangsu Tourism Society, and a peer-review expert for the NSFC.

河南开封人，副教授，硕士生导师，现任扬州大学“青年百人”特聘教授。南京师范大学人文地理学专业硕、博士毕业，南京大学地理学博士后，香港大学访问学者。主要从事文旅融合与旅游地理研究工作，侧重流空间与旅游大数据应用、旅游经济与环境影响评估、乡村旅游与文化生态效应等研究方向。近年来主持国家自然科学基金、国家社会科学基金重大遗产专项子课题、教育部人文社科基金、中国博士后科学基金、江苏省社科基金等课题10余项，参与6项国家自然科学基金面上项目，主持和参与城乡规划、文旅规划类课题40余项，在Tourism Management，Tourism Geographies，Journal of Destination Marketing & Management，Journal of Environmental Management，《地理学报》《自然资源学报》《地理研究》《经济地理》《人文地理》《美食研究》等国内外权威与核心以上刊物发表学术论文50余篇，部分成果被人大复印报刊资料全文转载。荣获江苏省哲学社会科学优秀成果二等奖1项（第一完成人），江苏省旅游学会优秀论文一等奖3项、规划研究二等奖1项，入选文旅部“万名旅游英才计划”、江苏省科技智库青年人才、扬州市“英才培育计划”培养对象（优秀文化旅游人才）等人才工程项目。兼任江苏省旅游学会青年分会副主任委员、国家自然科学基金通讯评审专家等,担任《美食研究》《旅游导刊》期刊编委/青年编委，以及Cities, International Journal of Health Geographics,Tourism Geographies,Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research,《自然资源学报》《地理研究》《旅游学刊》《经济地理》《地理与地理信息科学》《中国生态旅游》等国内外几十家刊物审稿人。