I am Pingbin Jin, Professor and Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University. I received my Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University, where I have since built my academic career. I currently serve as Professor and Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the same school, and have previously held a position as Visiting Professor at Shizuoka University, Japan. My research interests span tourism geography, tourism big data, human geography, ecological remote sensing, and tourism and urban planning, with particular expertise in the planning and design of scenic and tourist areas and in national park studies. Over the years, I have led numerous research projects funded by national and provincial agencies—including subprojects of the National 908 Program, the Ministry of Education Planning Fund, and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation—as well as more than one hundred regional and tourism planning projects commissioned by local governments and enterprises. Among the academic work I am most proud of are publications in leading international and national journals, including the Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management Perspectives, Ecological Indicators, Journal of Geographical Sciences, Chinese Geographical Science, and Progress in Geography. In total, I have published more than forty academic papers and over thre