Debasish Batabyal

Dr. Debasish Batabyal has been teaching Travel and Tourism Management at the Department of Travel and Tourism, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal. A Post-graduate in Business Management with specialization in tourism, Dr. Batabyal received Doctorate degree from the same University in the year 2013. His areas of research interest include eTourism, Sustainable Tourism and Social Solidarity Economy, and Destination development and planning. He has written two books and edited two more with reputed international publishing house. He has published a number of research articles in internationally reputed journals of Social Science viz., Indian Journal of Marketing, South Asian Journal of Tourism and Heritage, IJARBEST, Journal of Emerging Technologies and Research, and also in various edited volumes published by CRC press, (Canada), Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK), IGI Global (USA). He has also co-authored chapter in District Human Development Report (UNDP and Govt. of West Bengal) and District Gazetteer Report (Govt. of West Bengal). In recent times, he has been awarded ILO‟s South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) scholarship to participate in the 11 th Social and Solidarity Economy Academy in Madrid, Spain.