Tadayuki (Tad) Hara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone #: (407) 903-8174
Email Address: thara@mail.ucf.edu
Homepage: www.hospitality.ucf.edu/faculty/thara/index,htm

[Current Position]

Tad Hara joined the faculty of Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida as an Associate Professor of Finance and Tourism Management. He is also appointed as a full-time Senior Research Fellow at Dick Pope Institute for Tourism Studies. Before joining the Rosen College in 2005, he was teaching quantitative tourism industry analysis course, emphasizing Input-Output/Social Accounting Matrix (I-O/SAM) & Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) at School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University where he also worked as a research fellow at Center for Hospitality Research.

[Professional Background]
Dr. Hara spent 17 years with the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ: currently Mizuho Corporate Bank) as a senior manager & unit head of over 30 staffs, in charge of M & A, project financing and corporate financing for hospitality sectors with a loan portfolio exceeding US$300 million. Dr. Hara served twice as a diplomat specialized in the Middle Eastern affairs, first assigned to Japanese Embassy in Egypt in 1980 and second as an assistant director in charge of Multilateral Peace Process at the Near Eastern Bureau of Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1999.

[Research Aspirations]
While Dr. Hara has been involved with acquisitions, international debt syndication, real estate finance, feasibility studies and risk analysis during banking tenure, his lifetime interests have been in the area of international conflict resolution, economic impact analysis of tourism, poverty alleviation and sustainable economic development. He is particularly interested in modeling (showing with hard numbers) how the economic impact of tourism as an industry can mitigate broader social problems of the world, including poverty, inequality, conflicts, environmental impact and terrorism. His direct exposures for 20 years to global issues as a banker & diplomat prior to his academic career consistently underscores his strong multidisciplinary aspirations to his research.

[Educational Qualifications]
He received PhD ('04), M.S in Regional Science ('03), and MPS in Hotel Administration ('91) from Cornell University, NY, USA, MBA ('97) from University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, and B.S in Law ('84) from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

[Academic Membership, Research Activities and Publications]
He is a member of Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), Applied Regional Science Conference-Japan (ARSC), Peace Science Society International (PSSI), Middle East Institute (MEI), as well as Association of Hospitality Financial Management Educators (AHFME), Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), TTRA, and I-CHRIE. While he remain active in multi-disciplinary fields to publish his research paper in Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, Cornell Quarterly, Journal of Quality Assurances in Hospitality and Tourism, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, he presented refereed papers in North American Regional Science Council (by RSAI), North-East Regional Science Association, IMPLAN National Conference (U.S. Dept of Interior), European Peace Scientists’ Conference(@U of Amsterdam), AHFME, CHRIE and TTRA. He is the recipient of the Sage Publication Best Paper Award in the 8th Graduate Conference in Hospitality and Tourism as a PhD candidate at Cornell University in 2003.

His invited presentations include Waseda-Cornell seminar and Arab Tourism Conference by Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank group, Tourism Society of Korea, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, East Asian Economic Symposium by Economics Department of Yamaguchi University, and Ristumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. In addition he regularly publishes, as a columnist, academic essays to Japanese hospitality journals, Hotel Review (by Japan Hotel Association) and Rakuten Travel Handbook (by Rakuten Travel), as well as two of the largest hospitality-tourism journals in Japan, Gekkan Hotel Ryokan and Shukan Hotel Restaurant whenever editorial needs for educational papers occur. He contributed in total of over 120 refereed and invited papers since he moved from global banking/foreign services to current academic field.

[Textbook Publication, Local and Global Community Services]
He is the single author of "Quantitative Tourism Industry Analysis - Introduction to I-O/SAM modeling and Tourism Satellite Accoutns" by Elsevier (2008). He has been appointed to serve the needs of both local community (Advisory Council of Town of Eatonville Cultural Tourism Study) and global community (Advisory Committe Member for International Trends Research on Tourism Statistics, by Tourism Agency, Government of Japan). He served as a Paper Review Chair for the 13th Graduate Conference for Hospitality and Tourism to serve academic community in the U.S. In internatinal arena, he taught short courses at Lausanne Hotel School, Switzerland and a faculty orientation seminar at Tourism Department of Wakayama University, Japan. He has been a Visiting Researcher of Waseda Hospitality Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan since 2002, serving needs of global academic community. He received over 18 research grants for over $110,000 as investigators since 2005, as a reflection of serving needs of various stakeholders with relevant solutions.

[Teaching Next Generations]
In his classes, he is eager to inspire students towards both dynamic global business aspects and fascinating research opportunities, and currently serves as a chairperson for multiple PhD students at Rosen College of Hospitaltiy Management, particularly for those in pursuit of quantitative analyses of how issues in local community, region, nations in the world can be mitigated with the power of hospitality and tourism as an industry.