Emrullah Erul (PhD) is an Associate Professor in Tourism Management at Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey. He completed both his MSc degree (2014) and PhD (2018) at Texas A&M University in the Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Department. His research interests concern residents’ attitudes toward tourism and tourism development, residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism in the local communities, the social–cultural and economic impacts of tourism, and the impacts of all-inclusive resorts. His research has appeared in numerous leading tourism journals, such as Tourism Management, the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, the International Journal of Tourism Research, and the Journal of Travel Research.