Mohamad Yusuf is a distinguished academic and faculty member within the Department of Tourism Studies in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He currently presides as the Chair of the Doctoral Tourism Studies Program, an appointment he has held since 2026. His administrative leadership is further evidenced by his previous tenure as the Head of the UGM Center for Tourism Studies from 2022 to 2025. His scholarly research primarily examines tourism education, sustainable tourism paradigms, ritual studies, and halal tourism. Some of his publications are: "Tourism as a Cause of Dispossession: Land Expropriation and Social Exclusion in Borobudur, Indonesia" (Urban Governance Journal - 2026); "Beyond fiscal gains: the visa waiver policy as a strategic catalyst for Indonesia’s tourism competitiveness (Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events - 2026); Cultural Capital and Sustainable Tourism in the Kei Islands: the Role of Tradition in Island Tourism Development" (Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change - 2025); How can communities better prepare for future disasters? Learning from the tourism community resilience model from Bali, Indonesia (Journal of Tourism Futures - 2024); "Spiritual Tourism Development of Bali Spirit Festival for Supporting Tourism Sustainability" (International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage - 2023); "Future strategies for tourism destination management: post COVID-19 lessons observed from Borobudur, Indonesia" (Journal of Tourism Futures - 2023); "Effects of Perceived Value, Expectation, Visitor Management, and Visitor Satisfaction on Revisit Intention to Borobudur Temple, Indonesia" (Journal of Heritage Tourism - 2022); “Localizing Indonesian Halal tourism policy within local customs, Qanun, and marketing” (Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events – 2021); “Effects of perceived value, expectation, visitor management, and visitor satisfaction on revisit intention to Borobudur Temple, Indonesia” (Journal of Tourism Heritage - 2021); “Ecological politics of water: The ramifications of tourism development in Yogyakarta“ (Journal of South-East Asian Research – 2022); and “How far can tourism go: Residents' attitudes toward tourism development in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia“ (Indonesian Journal of Geography – 2020).