Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz holds a PhD in Tourism and Hospitality from Plymouth University, UK. He is an Associate Professor working at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Salalah, Oman. His research interests are tourism actor-networks, leadership in tourism, knowledge transfer, collaboration, environmental protection, sustainable livelihood, poverty reduction, sustainable tourism development, governance in developing countries, and structural equation modelling (SEM) CB-SEM and PLS-SEM analysis in tourism and fuzzy-set configuration approach (fsQCA). He has published multiple papers in reputed journals indexed in WoS and Scopus (e.g., Tourism Management; Annals of Tourism Research; Journal of Knowledge Management; International Journal of Tourism Research; Tourism Review; International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration).