Haywantee Ramkissoon, Ph.D. is a Fellow of the Peer Review Council at the British Academy of Management, London, UK. She is a Professor in Tourism at UniSA Business at the University of South Australia. She is also affiliated with the College of Business & Economics at the University of Johaneshburg, South Africa, and Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Her scholarship in sustainability research e.g., sustainable tourism development, place attachment, the metaverse, wellbeing and quality-of-life, customer engagement, gender and entrepreneurship, cultural tourism, pro-environmental behaviour and public health has gained international significance evidenced by media coverage, prestigious awards and academic and industry keynotes. She engages in collaborative research with national and international academic and industry partners for the benefits of individuals and society. She serves on several editorial advisory boards of top-tier journals and as a reviewer across disciplines. She is recognised as one of the world’s most cited highly cited researchers in 2021, 2022, 2023- Clarivate Analytics demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. She is also listed in Stanford World's top 2% most cited world scientists (2021, 2022, 2023).