Vassilios Ziakas is Associate Professor in Sport and Event Management, Honorary Faculty, University of Liverpool, UK. He is editor-in-chief of the book series Event Management Theory and Methods (Goodfellow).

Christine Lundberg is Professor of Tourism Management at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is co-editor (with Vassilios Ziakas) of The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (2018).

Maria Lexhagen is Professor of Tourism Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Her research is focused on marketing and digitalisation in tourism and cuts across both business management and consumer behaviour.