Lauren Dyll is a National Research Foundation-rated scholar and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal with research interests in cultural heritage and tourism, participation, identity and knowledge production. She is co-chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, and is co-editor of the journal, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Keyan G Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and founder and co-editor of Critical Arts. His applied research on cultural tourism from the perspectives of both subjects and tourists is widely published and impactful of actual ventures across South Africa.