C. Michael Hall is Professor Ahurei in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Visiting Professor and Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor in Tourism at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; Guest Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden; and Visiting Professor, Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism, Taylor's University, Malaysia. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, heritage, food and global environmental change.

Siamak Seyfi is Assistant Professor in the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland. Using a multi-/interdisciplinary approach and informed by diverse disciplinary perspectives, his research interests focus on tourism politics and geopolitics with a primary focus on the MENA region, cultural heritage, Gen Z, resilience, sustainability and qualitative sociological/ethnographic research methods in tourism.

S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism (CRiT), Taylor's University, Malaysia. His research interest areas contain sustainable tourism, community participation, residents' perceptions toward tourism development, and advanced quantitative analysis approaches. He serves as an editorial team and board member of more than 20 reputed tourism and hospitality journals.