About me

Hossein Olya is a PhD of Tourism Management and a member of Oxford Brookes Business School at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. His research has a dual focus: ‘tourism marketing’ and ‘tourism climate’ with a particular interest in “destination management” fields. He worked at Sejong University, Seoul from Sep 2016 to Aug. 2017.  

He is currently severing as associate editor of the Service Industries Journal and reviewing 13 pee-review journals. Olya is selected as top 1% of reviewers in the fields of Business and Management by Publones in 2017.  He is one of pioneer scholars in application of complexity theory and Qualitative Comparative Analysis in tourism and hospitality research. He is highly skilled in applied statistics, quantitative research methods, and geographic Information system (GIS). Olya effectively contributed in multidisciplinary projects. He is regularly invited speaker in Italy, South Korea, Middle East, and UK. He contributed in the research project as both PI and a member of research team.

Olya has been delivering lectures for the past four years in international and multicultural universities. He has experience of teaching in advanced quantitative research and marketing modules in both undergraduate and graduate levels. Olya was head of tourism school at British University of Nicosia in 2016. He has experience with curriculum development and internationally-accredited programs. Olya served as a coordinator of online education program for three years. At an institutional level, Olya has provided academic leadership for over several academic colleagues, supervised and graduated PhD students. He uses interactive, experiential and engaging learning methods in his teaching.

Recently Olya applied systematic and asymmetric analytical approaches to model risk perceptions of the customers concerning Halal products and services.   He also applied complexity theory with fsQCA to model tourist behavior regarding climate risk and introduced Tourism Climate Insurance as a new service in the tourism industry. He has devised a new index in the tourism climate nexus, called fuzzy-based CIT. He developed a climate-based recreation management system called, RMS calendar. Olya assessed the risk of meteorological parameters for suitability of climate for tourists.  These works were published in a number of top-tier scholarly journals, namely, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.