{"id":339770,"date":"2021-03-08T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=339770"},"modified":"2021-03-08T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T20:00:46","slug":"nmc-associate-professor-addresses-uc-berkeley-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmc-associate-professor-addresses-uc-berkeley-group\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC associate professor addresses UC Berkeley group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_339771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339771\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Yunzi-Zhang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-339771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Yunzi-Zhang-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-339771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yunzi Zhang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Yunzi Zhang, an associate professor at the Northern Marianas College\u2019s School of Business, recently gave a presentation on constructing a tourism destination identity for the Northern Mariana Islands to the University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Tourism Studies Working Group via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang\u2019s presentation\u2014named \u201cWho Am I and Who Should I Be? \u2013 The Issues of Constructing a Tourism Destination Identity of the Northern Mariana Islands\u201d\u2014was held last Feb. 26, focusing on how the tourism identity and attributes of the Northern Mariana Islands have been constructed differently in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang explained in her presentation how the CNMI\u2019s colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan, and the current affiliation it has with the United States makes it a persisting challenge for the indigenous islanders to encapsulate a unified identity of the NMI for different inbound tourist groups from China, Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to their tangled history, the three tourist groups have distinct expectations and imaginations of what the NMI resembles and has to offer,\u201d Zhang said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tourism Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley consists of more than 50 scholars throughout northern California. It includes faculty and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines, among them anthropology, history, education, landscape architecture, sociology, political science, Spanish and Portuguese, ethnic studies, city planning, gender studies, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang, who has been teaching a majority of the hospitality classes at NMC since 2017, holds a Ph.D. in hospitality and tourism management from Purdue University. She also holds a master\u2019s degree in hospitality management from Cornell University and Bachelor of Business Administration from George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>Interested individuals who would like to learn more about Zhang\u2019s presentation can reach out to her through email at\u00a0yunzi.zhang@marianas.edu. For more information about the hospitality management programs at NMC, visit\u00a0www.marianas.edu. 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