PhD candidate in Integrated Tourism and Hospitality Management from the Graduate School of Tourism Management, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand and lecturer at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL). Research interests include: sustainable development, leisure and recreation, event management, gastronomy tourism, slow food tourism, and wellness tourism.
Haknoukrith graduated with a bachelor degree in Tourism Management from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia and a masters degree in Public Policy from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

He is both a lecturer and researcher at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia and was also a teaching and research assistant there.

His research interests include sustainable tourism, tourism policy and governance and tourism and innovation.