Dr. Gül Erkol Bayram received is PhD in Tourism Management from "Sakarya University (Turkey). She is Professor in Tour Guiding (bachelor's and master's Degree) and Dean of Tourism Faculty, and International Office Coordinator, Sinop University, Turkey. She’s teaching and consultancy areas include tourism management, organizational behavior, women empowerment, entrepreneurship, cultural tourism, hotel/lodging management, cross-cultural management. Her research areas include women empowerment, sustainability and green practices, strategy implementation, knowledge management, hotel/lodging management, crisis, management, destination marketing, information technology and developing countries, network analysis. She chaired/co-chaired and served on numerous Master and PhD dissertation and master thesis committees. Erkol Bayram has also worked as a professional tour guide in the tourism sector. She has many book chapters and articles in the international arena and published her books as an editor. She has been invited for more than 100+ many talks/lectures/ panel discussions by different Universities and countries as India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Romania, Croatia, Philippines, UK, USA etc. She is member of several editorial board of international tourism journals.

She has more than 20 years tourism experience and worked with different positions as professional tour guide, Hotel agent, guest relations manager, travel agency consultant in Turkey and Restaurant Guest Relations in Spain. She is also the member of International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism, https://ifitt.org/ and Şanliurfa Culture Education Art and Research Foundation, https://surkav.org.tr/. She has ongoing project related ecotourism, cultural tourism, women entrepreneurship.