The APacCHRIE 2026 Conference welcomes you to Osaka, Japan! The conference will be hosted by Ritsumeikan Business School, with the theme: “Futurizing Tourism and Hospitality: Embracing New Challenges and Innovation.” As the Paper Chairs for this conference, we extend a warm welcome to all conference delegates.
It is our pleasure and privilege to serve as the Paper Chairs. APacCHRIE Annual Conferences have been increasingly successful, and APacCHRIE 2026 looks set to be one of the best yet. A successful conference needs a high number of papers of excellent quality, and we are expecting a record number of submissions from educators, graduate students, and practitioners from all over the world.
We will rigorously review and select the best papers from those submitted and will be presenting Best Paper Awards. Therefore, please submit your papers by the deadline.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel & Tourism Management (SHTM) and Ritsumeikan Business School (RBS) will collaborate closely to review all submitted papers.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all reviewers for their contributions to the evaluation process. We would also like to thank the support teams managing communications for their commitment to ensuring a seamless paper review process.
We trust that the conference will be an intellectually rewarding experience for all delegates.
All the best in your scholarly pursuits!
Prof Sam Kim
Paper Chair and Best Paper
Selection Committee
Chair. The Hong Kong
Polyethnic University
