Dr. Muzaffer (Muzzo) Uysal is a professor of tourism in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from the University of New Haven and a BS from Ankara Academy of Economics & Commercial Sciences. Muzzo has extensive experience in the travel and tourism field, authoring or co-authoring a significant number of articles in tourism, recreation and hospitality journals, proceedings, book chapters, and four monographs and one book relating to different aspects of tourism marketing, demand/supply interaction and international tourism. He also has conducted workshops and seminars on similar topics and field research in several countries. Muzzo is a member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and serves as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of eight journals, including Journal of Travel Research, and Annals of Tourism Research as resource editor. He has received the College of Human Resources' Outstanding Research Award and the Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence award. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development and marketing, and international tourism. Dr. Uysal's books are listed on the Books page.