Dear Colleagues, It is with morose feeling that I am informing you about my retirement from the editorship of Tourism Recreation Research (TRR). TRR did very well having your support and direction during all these 44 years. In fact, all of you are the part of TRR success all through these years. Please accept my appreciation for all your cooperation. Professor T. C. Huan of National Chiayi University, Taiwan will be the new Editor-in-Chief and Mr Masood A. Naqvi of this Centre will continue to assist him. I request your continued support to both of them in going ahead under Routledge. – Tej Vir (TV) Singh
Congratulations on your retirement after a stellar career. TRR has moved from strength to strength under your leadership and is now one of the most important journals in our field. I am sure TRR will continue to be strong under the leadership of Dr. T.C. Huan and the new team. – Kaye Chon
Congratulations for your ENORMOUS contribution to the field and you excellent leadership throughout the years. TRR has been established as a great journal through your enormous commitment and intellectual drive. Respect! Welcome to TC Huan to the new role. – Dimitrios Buhalis
You have been an inspiration to all of us. I wish you all the best in ‘retirement’ although I am sure you will stay busy. – Bob McKercher
Thank you for your monumental contribution to tourism scholarship as TRR founder. I still open each issue of the publication with anticipation and pleasure. You have always brought a humanistic sensibility to your care for the physical environment. Your marvelous legacy will live on. I feel privileged to have engaged with TRR in different capacities over the years and look forward to your continued mentorship and inspiration. Welcome TC! – Brian King
Your efforts and encouragement to many scholars to contribute and debate are much appreciated around the world. Live long and prosper! … and welcome TC as well! – C. Michael Hall
It has been an absolute pleasure serving on the editorial board with you at the helm, and you have mentored Masood well – so glad to hear he will continue in his role. Your work has been impactful on so many fronts, so enjoy the rest and rewards that retirement brings, you’ve earned it. – Betty Weiler
Like Brian King, I still open each new issue of TRR with great anticipation. Your influence in the field is immeasurable, and I will forever be grateful for your leadership and collaboration, and for the successful journal you established so long ago. What a visionary leader! Stay young and we still expect great things from you. TC, I know you are up to the challenge of editing TRR, but you have huge shoes to fill. – Dallen Timothy
Pioneer is the word that comes to mind when I think of your many contributions to knowledge and innovation. I’m a different and better scholar because of your unwavering confidence in me and what I have to offer. I will miss our regular communications over the journal, but I hope we can stay in touch over other professional and personal matters. – David Fennell
It has been a privilege working with you on the editorial board of TRR and learning a lot more than I could have anywhere else. Yes, your contribution to tourism academia is enormous, and yes you were the pioneer who initiated the very first of such journals in India, and yes you inspired so many including a very fortunate me. – Amitabh Upadhya
Thank you for captaining an excellent journal and for your many years of contribution both via the journal and theoretical influence on tourism research. I look forward to working with T.C. Huan and supporting the ongoing success of TRR. – Deborah Edwards
I was saddened by your decision to give up the editorship of TRR, but I understand your considerations. I hope that you will still remain active. – Erik Cohen
A personal thank you for all the hard work and for creating such wonderful opportunities for scholars around the world (including me) to have their research noticed. Congratulations, TC, on the new role and happy to continue supporting the journal. – Ulrike Gretzel
It has been an honour serving on TRR’s editorial board under your leadership. All the best for your retirement! – Sebastian Filep
Here’s to an enjoyable retirement. I genuinely think TRR was /is the best journal – more open to different viewpoints and arguments, more open to work that is discursive. That was down to you, so thanks. It has also been enjoyable working with you on the journal and the special issue. All the best for the future. – Jim Butcher
I am very sad to read this update that you will be moving on from TRR. Though I never had the pleasure to meet you in person, I wish you to know that I am forever grateful for openings you provided me, which have played an important role in my career. Thank you so very much for all you have done to help advance not only my career, but the entire academic discipline. – Daniel Guttentag
Thank you so much for all of the interesting opportunities that you gave me with, and through, TRR. It is partly thanks to your suggestion of focusing on Wellness Tourism back in 2006 that I have managed to advance my work so far in this field. The journal has done so well. Sorry to hear that you are retiring, but I wish you a restful retirement and good health. – Melanie Smith
I will be sad to see you leave your Tourism Recreation Research – you have been an exceptional leader and editor, unafraid to ask for more and better from your authors. It’s been a privilege to serve on the board with you at the helm. All the best for the future! – Alexandra Coghlan
First and foremost, congratulations for opening another glorious chapter in your life. What a remarkable journey of crossing some rough roads, passing one frontier, heading to another, and now landing on a towering platform. I am also pleased to know that TC and Masood will lead the journal journey to its climax – for us to sit back and support their scholarly inroads and outreaching pathways. – Jafar Jafari
I appreciate Tej’s announcement regarding the Editor-in-Chief transmission of the Journal, Tourism Recreation Research. It is my honour to follow Tej’s TRR achievement and serve as an Editor-in-Chief for TRR. Being the Editor-in-Chief of TRR, I sincerely thank you for your past participation and contribution to TRR and beg you to keep supporting TRR. I look forward to your help and guidance in continuing to raise the profile of the journal and shall value your opinion and comments in this regard. Tej and you all have built a good reputation for TRR in the tourism research world. I am pleased to be able to support that reputation. – Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan