Asia Pacific Annual Chapter Conference – Workshops

TTRA APac 2024
Pre-Conference Workshops 

Capacity: 8-15 pax/workshop
Date: Saturday, 30 November 2024
Duration: 2 hours (13:00 – 15:00 hrs)

The pre-conference workshops will allow conference delegates to enjoy themselves and learn more about Thai food and culture.

Workshops – 30 November 2024 – Thai Cuisine

Workshops – Thai Cuisine	Price (THB)	Price (AUD)	Image
Sticky Rice with Custard and Mango Description: Thai dessert recipes are known as a mix of shapes, colors, and flavors, especially Sticky Rice with Custard. Thai custard also comes in many variations, like taro, pandan, pumpkin, and Thai coconut custard. Mango sticky rice is also a classic traditional Thai dessert. The sweet sticky rice is made from steamed glutinous rice and coconut milk. The rice is topped with salted coconut sauce and crispy mung beans. The mango is simply fresh and delicious!	1,200	54
Thai Herbal Inhaler Description: Herbal inhalers are categorized as household herbal medicine. Its medical purpose is for relief of dizziness, motion sickness, cold, and nasal congestion. The production of herbal inhalers is a heritage from Thai traditional herbal and medical knowledge. They are easy to make and can be commercialized with profits from this business.	800	36
Classic Cocktail with a Thai Twist Description: Let Thailand’s rich culinary traditions infuse new life into classic cocktails! Create unique twists on cocktails with local Thai ingredients such as Sangsom rum, kefir lime leaves, Thai basil, and lemongrass. ChuenJai (refreshing): A twist recipe from “Cha Yen”, the traditional Thai Iced Tea. Zaab Eli Cocktail: Inspiration from Tom Yum Soup. Tom Yum is hot, spicy, and sour. The protein can be chicken, shrimp, beef, pork, or tofu.	1,000	45
Tom Yum Goong (Tom Yum Soup with shrimp) with Rice Description: Tom Yum Soup is one of the most famous and beloved Thai soups due to Its distinctly spicy and sour flavor, complemented by a scent of citrus. Tom Yum can be either a thick or clear soup and roasted chili paste is often added to enrich its color and flavor. The words “Tom” and “Yum” mean “boiling” or “hot” and “spicy and sour,” respectively, which perfectly describes this soup. Tom yum soup with shrimp is the most popular kind of tom yum in Thailand. Including shrimp heads adds extra flavor to the soup.	1,200	54

Limited seats are available. To register for the workshop, please click the link below.

TTRA APac 2024: Research Symposium 

Date: Sunday 1^st December 2024
Time: 09:00 – 12:00 hrs.
Venue: Dusit Thani College

Symposium Agenda

Part 1 – Leveraging LinkedIn for personal branding (0900hrs to 1000hrs)

• Focused on academics’ personal branding
  • Unlike other programs and workshops for academics, which revolve around papers and publishing, this workshop trains you to develop your brand as an academician and a researcher.
    
• Magnify your chances
  • LinkedIn is a professional platform – which also means that your future collaborators, your future employers, and your future clients will be looking at your work. You can magnify your chances of finding the ‘right one’ when you are impactfully present on the platform. This workshop is specially designed for researchers and academicians to allow their impact to widen!
    
• Sharing research
  • Sharing research with your network should be more meaningful than the ‘hot off the press’ captions. In this workshop, you will learn strategies to communicate with non-experts on the platform – because, most of the time, they are the decision-makers!
    
• Increased Impact
  • Good research becomes best when translated into reality. LinkedIn allows you to grow the impact of your research by sharing it with people who can use that information for the larger good. This workshop has an action plan embedded to allow you to put your best foot forward!
    

Dr Prachi Thakur is a TED speaker and an academic at the School of Hospitality and Service Management, Sunway University, Malaysia. She has over 32 Thousand followers on LinkedIn and has been invited to speak at multiple universities across the world, which include Washington State University and Florida Atlantic University in the USA, Torrens University and William Angliss Institute in Australia, and Sunway University and University of Philippines in Asia. She is also a graduate of LinkedIn’s Inaugural Creator Accelerator Program in India, where she was personally coached for insider techniques of the platform.

Dr Thakur is also an avid researcher and the Managing Editor for Tourism Management Perspectives (A Category Journal). She has published in multiple journals and is currently collaborating with researchers from Spain, Australia, the UK, and South Korea, all of whom she met on LinkedIn.

Morning tea break (1000-1030hrs)

Part 2 – The current landscape of academic publishing (1030-1130hrs)

Dr Aaron Tham is a Senior Lecturer and Subject Component Lead in Tourism, Leisure and Events at the School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has received some of the highest teaching accolades in the form of the Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2021. Aaron has also initiated and led cross-institutional teaching and assessment practices, has teaching experience across several Asian countries, and is also the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group Co-Lead.

Aaron is also the Capability Development Track Lead at the University’s Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre. He is a Co-Director of the Southeast Asia Research Academy (SEARA), one of the International Congress and Convention Association Ambassadors, and the CAUTHE Executive Secretary. He has guest-edited 5 special issues and published more than 70 papers, several housed in Emerald journals. Aaron won an Emerald Publishing Commendation for Research Excellence Award in 2023. In other roles, Aaron is on the Committee for Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Taskforce, and in December 2023, was elected as President of the Travel and Tourism Research Association Asia Pacific (TTRA APac) Chapter.

In this workshop, Aaron will share insights into academic publishing based on his experience as an author, reviewer, and editor in academic journals. This session will also feature how Emerald Publishing can help support scholars in their research journeys. 

Question and answers (1130hrs to 1200hrs)