Dr. Farhad Moghimehfar is a faculty member in the Department of Recreation and Tourism Management at Vancouver Island University (VIU). Farhad received his PhD in Physical Education and Recreation from the University of Alberta. Before joining VIU in 2018, Farhad was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alberta and an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia. His research interests lie in the area of nature-based tourism, focusing on community resilience and studies of human behaviour. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of physical education, community planning and environmental psychology. Farhad has provided community and professional advisory services related to tourism, park planning, research design and advanced data analysis in Alberta, BC and internationally. Farhad serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecotourism and has published in leading journals such as Tourism Management and Leisure Sciences.