Department of Hotel & Tourism Management
The Department of Hotel & Tourism Management is the forerunner in the hotel tourism industry in the 21st century.
We will help you become a hotel, tourism, and aviation leader!
The Department of Hotel & Tourism Management is the forerunner in the hotel tourism industry in the 21st century.
We will help you become a hotel, tourism, and aviation leader!
Education |
'Ph.D., 2000 College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea Dissertation title: An exploratory study of the impact of management contract on the performance of super deluxe hotels in Korea (Advisor: Soyoun Cho; Major: Hotel finance)
M.P.S., 1994 Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Monograph title: The negotiation and administration of hotel management contracts in Korea (Advisor: James J. Eyster; Major: Hotel finance and marketing)
B.A., 1988 Social Studies Education, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Geography) |
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Experience |
2021.07-2024.07 Non -executive Director (Board member), Seoul Tourism Organization
2018 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award - Marquis Who's Who.
2018.09- 2019.08 Visiting Scholar, School of Hospitality Administration, Boston University, USA.
Since 2016 Selected for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
2016 A listee of the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century - International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, England (10th Edition, 2016).
2015.11-2016.10 Excellent paper support program/ National Research Foundation of Korea “Predicting restaurant financial distress using decision tree and AdaBoosted decision tree models. Economic Modelling”
2012.05-2013.04 Excellent paper support program/ National Research Foundation of Korea “Hotel bankruptcy prediction using support vector machine, artificial neural network, logistic, and multivariate discriminant analysis”.
2011.05-2012.04 Mid-career researcher support program/ National Research Foundation of Korea “A Comparison study of Korea and U.S. Hospitality Distress Predictors during Economic Downturns”
2010.09- 2011.08 Adjunct Associate Professor & Visiting Scholar, School of Hospitality Management, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
2009.11-2010.10 Mid-career researcher support program/ National Research Foundation of Korea “Cost-conscious NN-SVM ensemble model for hotel bankruptcy prediction”
2007.07 Best Paper Award, The Tourism Sciences Society of Korea. “Prediction of hotel bankruptcy using multivariate discriminant analysis, logistic regression and artificial neural network”, Journal of Tourism Sciences. 30(2): 53-75 (in Korean).
EDITORIAL AND/OR BOARD MEMBER POSITIONS 2021.01-2022.12 Vice-President, Korean Hospitality and Tourism Academe (KHTA) 2021.03-2022.02 Board member of Korea Association of Trade and Exhibition Studies 2020.09-2021.08 Vice-president, Korea Academic Society of Tourism and Leisure 2017.06-2021.02 Vice-president, Korea MICE Tourism Society 2019.01-2020.12 Auditor, Korea Association of Trade and Exhibition Studies 2018.03-2020.02 Vice-president/ Chair, Research Committee of The Academy of Korea Hospitality and Tourism 2017.06-2019.05 Vice-president/ Chair, International Relations Committee of Korea MICE Tourism Society 2016.02-Present Editorial board member of International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management in the Digital Age (IJTHMDA) 2015.08-2020.12 Vice-President/ Chair, Industry-Academia Cooperation Committee of Korean Hospitality and Tourism Academe (KHTA) 2013.06-2017.05 Board member of Korea MICE Tourism Society 2011.06-2014.05 Vice-president/ Chair, Public Relations Committee of Korea MICE Tourism Society 2010.08-Present Advisory board member of the Korea America Hospitality & Tourism Educators Association (KAHTEA) 2009.04-2011.03 Board member of Korea MICE Tourism Society 2008.03-2010.02 Academic board member of Foodservice Management Society of Korea 2002.07-2004.06 Editorial board member of The Academy of Korea Hospitality and Tourism 2009.06-2009.12 Editor-in-chief, 2009 Sejong Cyber University’s Self-Study Report 2007.01-2007.08 Editor-in-chief, 2007 Sejong Cyber University’s Self-Study Report |
Book |
PUBLICATIONS Kim, Soo Y., and Upneja, A. “Majority voting ensemble with a decision trees for business failure prediction during economic downturns”, Journal of Innovation and Knowledge (Accepted in February 2021) (SSCI).
Kim, Soo Young 2018. “Predicting hospitality financial distress with ensemble models: The case of US hotels, restaurants, and amusement and recreation”. Service Business, 12(3): 483-503 (SSCI).
Kim, Soo Young 2014. “A comparison study of Korea and US hospitality firms’ financial distress predictors during economic downturns based on SVM-NN-DT Stacking model”, Journal of Tourism and Leisure Research, 26(4): 5-26 (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Y., and Upneja, A. 2014. “Predicting restaurant financial distress using decision tree and AdaBoosted decision tree models”, Economic modelling, 36(January):354-362 (SSCI).
Kim, Soo Young 2012. “A study on the determinants of casino hotel financial distress using ANN”, Journal of Tourism and Leisure, 24(4): 159-178 (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Young 2011. “Cost-conscious SVM-NN hybrid model for the hotel bankruptcy prediction”, Journal of Tourism Sciences, 35(8): 101-125 (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Y. 2011. “Prediction of hotel bankruptcy using support vector machine, artificial neural network, logistic regression, and multivariate discriminant analysis”. The Service Industries Journal, 31(3-4): 441-468 (SSCI).
Kim, Soo Y. 2008. “Hotel management contracts: Impact on performance in the Korean hotel sector”, The Service Industries Journal. 28(5): 701-718 (SSCI).
Kim, Soo Young 2006. “Prediction of hotel bankruptcy using multivariate discriminant analysis, logistic regression and artificial neural network”, Journal of Tourism Sciences. 30(2): 53-75 (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Young 2006. “Prediction of bankruptcy in the hotel industry: A multivariate discriminant analysis model”, Korean Journal of Hospitality Administration, 15(1):103-120 (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Young & Cho, Soyoun. 2001. “The impact of management contract on the performance of hotels”, Journal of Tourism Sciences, 24(3):107-125 (in Korean).
Cho, Soyoun. & Kim, Soo Young 1998. “Management contract, financial performance, and stability of super deluxe hotels in Seoul”, Journal of Tourism Sciences, 22(2): 96-101(special edition) (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Young 1998. “An analysis of Korean hotel management contract provisions and its impact on financial performance”, Journal of Tourism Sciences, 21(2):189-204 (in Korean). |
Theses |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OR SPEEACHES Kim, Soo Young and Upneja, Arun, 2020. 06.24. Majority voting of ensemble with decision trees for business failure prediction during economic downturns, 11th Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge 2020 Zoom Conference, Madrid, Spain.
Kim, Soo Y. 2017. 09. 20. Predicting restaurant financial distress using decision tree and AdaBoosted decision tree models. 4th Annual Global Congress of Knowledge Economy 2017, Qingdao, China.
Kim, Soo Y. 2017. 06. 29. Predicting hospitality financial distress with ensemble models: The case of US hotel, restaurant, and amusement & recreation. 7th Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA 2017) Conference, ISEG, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kim, Soo Y., Hua, Nan & Upneja, Arun. 2015. 07. 03. What drives restaurant bankruptcy? A survival analysis perspective. International Work-Conference on Time Series (ITISE) 2015, Granada, Spain
Huo, Yang & Kim, Soo Y. 2013. 08. 02. Verification of bankruptcy prediction models and prediction of restaurant bankruptcy accuracy comparing logistic regression, artificial neural networks (ANNs), and support vector machine (SVM). Istanbul International Conference on Business and Economics, Istanbul, Turkey.
Kim, Soo Young 2011. 11.11. Experimental study on comparison of Korea and U.S. hotel financial distress predictors. Proceedings of 2011 Fall Conference on Korea Convention Society, Daejeon, Korea (in Korean).
Kim, Soo Young 2011.12.10. Experimental study on casino hotel bankruptcy predictors. Proceedings of 2011 the 39th General Fall Symposium of KASTLE (Korea Academic Society of Tourism and Leisure). Seoul, Korea (in Korean).
SEJONG CYBER UNIVERSITY SERVICES Dean/ Office of Planning, Office of Academic Affairs and Research, Graduate School of Cyber University; Chair/ School of Hotel and Tourism Management; Director/ Institute for Continuing Educations, Global Network Center, e-Learning Center, Office of Admission and Planning. |