1. Ph.D. Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
2. Cert. in Japanese Language Program for Teacher Training Students, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
3. M.Sc. Ecotourism Planning and Management, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Rural tourism and community development, agricultural extension (tea tourism), culture and heritage, and sustainability.

1. International Exchange in Tea Tourism: Reconceptualizing Japanese Green Tourism for Sustainable Farming Communities.
2. Koyasan's Temple Lodging: Shades of Grey in the Luxury Tourism Spectrum.
3. Functioning tourism interpretation on consumer products at the tourist generating region through tea tourism.
4. The Commodification of 'Rurality' to Tourism: A Creative Model for Sustaining Japonica Rice Production in Northern Thailand.
5. Conceptualizing Thai Cuisine with Japanese Dietary: Values toward the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage and Rural Tourism.
6. International exchange in tea tourism.
7. Tea Cultural Commodification in Sustainable Tourism: Perspectives from Thai and Japanese Farmer Exchange.
8. Agricultural heritage systems of orchard based on the concept of satoyama and sufficiency economy: Green tourism perspectives for Japan and Thailand.

1. Associate professor, School of Management and Information(Tourism Management Major), Graduate School of Management and Information of Innovation,University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
2. Lecturer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan.
3. Lecturer, Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand.