La Trobe University, Australia, began her life in tourism guiding horseback tours in the Australian High Country and witnessed first-hand the growth of a specific sector of tourism and its effects on local, country communities and families.  She was an early Board Member of the Victorian Tourism Operators Association where she represented the interests of such groups to local and state government. Since moving to academia some 14 years ago, Sue has conducted tourism-based research into public land management, nature-based tourism, rural tourism, community development, cycle tourism and film-induced tourism.  As well as producing numerous academic papers, she has published four books, "Beeton's Guide to Adventure Horse Riding", "Ecotourism: a practical guide for rural communities", "Community Development Through Tourism" and "Film-Induced Tourism".  She is an international Board member of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) and co-convenor of the bi-annual International Tourism and Media conference (ITAM). Sue has been Head of the Department of Tourism at La Trobe University.

currently holds the position of Planning Manager on the staff of the Vice Chancellor of Lincoln University, New Zealand.  Prior to this she held the post of Head of Department of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. As a researcher Dr Berno had established a reputation for her work analysing cross cultural communications and for assessing the impacts of tourism upon various groups within the South Pacific. One such example is her work on Cook Islanders and tourism published in Annals of Tourism Research.

lectures at the Graduate Institute and Department of Tourism at Chinese Cultural University, Taipei.  Janet has published widely in the English and Mandarin academic literatures, including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Vacation Marketing and Tourism. She has also held visiting positions overseas including at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

from Victoria University, Melbourne is the author of two books relating the Event Management and National Events, and has contributed to several journals including the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Tourism Economics and Tourism Analysis. She is also the co-editor of the Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

research specialities lie in organisational change and human resource management with reference to the hospitality industry. He has publications in several journals including Employee Relations, The International Journal of Hospitality Management and he is the winner of a best paper award for an article in the Australian Journal of Hospitality Management. He has been Director of Research within the Tourism, Hospitality, Sports and Recreation Department at Griffith University, an AASCB accredited Management School.

is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.  She is a member of the Paulo Longo Research Initiative which is a collaboration of scholars, policy analysts and sex workers that aims to develop and consolidate ethical, interdisciplinary scholarship on sex work to improve the human rights, health and well being of women, men and transgenders who sell sex. Jo is the author of several articles on sex work and the landmark book Global Sex Workers that have had an important influence on contemporary thinking about sex work particularly in the context of mobility.

holds the post of Senior Lecturer in Business Management at Lincoln University. His doctoral degree and much of his research relates to issues in human resource management in the hospitality industry and his publications include articles in Acta Touristica, e-Review of Tourism Research, The international Journal of Wine Business Research and the International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. In addition to his research interests Dr Fraser also maintains a commercial business in the growing of walnuts.

is Director of the China Hospitality Research Centre and Deputy Dean of the School of Tourism Management, Beijing International Studies University (BISU). Widely published in both Mandarin and English, she holds research awards from the Beijing Tourism Administration and China Tourism Administration and best researcher awards from BISU. Her English language papers have appeared in journals such as International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism Management and Tourism.

is Professor in Marketing, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to this Mike has had positions including Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago, Professor of Tourism and Service Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Marketing, Stirling University, Scotland. Michael has longstanding teaching, publication and research interests in tourism, regional development and social/green marketing with particular emphasis on issues of place branding and marketing as well as conservation and environmental change, event management and marketing, and the use of tourism as an economic development and conservation mechanism. More recently he has been undertaking research on wine and food marketing and gastronomy, which has required strenuous research in the field. He is the author and editor of over 40 books as well as over 250 journal articles and book chapters and has been active in a number of international research and business associations. He is the editor of Current Issues in Tourism.

is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Humanities at Auckland University of Technology. He was formerly Professor and Dean of the School of Services Management at Bournemouth University, and was Reader and Director of Research at Oxford Brookes University. He has published more than 100 articles and conference papers in academic and professional publications. He is actively involved in the hospitality industry through his work with the professional body (the Institute of Hospitality, of which he was President in 1997), the British Hospitality Association, and the City and Guilds of London Institute.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, a Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and an Honorary Member of the City and Guilds of London Institute.

is the former Head of the Department of Tourism at Southern Cross University, Australia, and is now Director of the International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) which is an initiative of the Australian federal government - see http://www.the-ice.org/. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vacation Marketing, co-Editor of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education and also on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He has a variety of research interests, and has been listed in Tourism Management as being amongst the world's top 50 tourism researchers. He has had extensive international experience in tourism education, having held full or visiting academic positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and Austria. Over the years he has been instrumental in establishing linkages between SCU and a number of overseas institutions.

is Dean of the Department of Tourism Management, Nankai University. Her research specialities lie in destination assessment and economic impacts and she has been the lead researcher for China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) projects on supply chain management and again for Tianjin Tourism Administration on event based tourism. Her  publications in Mandarin include those in journals such as Tourism Science, Travel Higher Education Research, The Nankai Business Review and a significant number of Chinese University Journals such as that of Beijing International Studies University.

Professor T.C. Huang is Dean at National of the College of Management, National Chiayi University, Taiwan, and was formerly Dean of the Tourism and Leisure College of National Penghu University. He has published more than 80 papers. He has also contributed to 5 books in English/Chinese. His publications are in areas including cultural/heritage tourism, international travel, benefits sought, travel behavior, environmental education, trip satisfaction, hospitality management, and tourism marketing.

Associate Professor Robert Inkabaran lectures and undertakes research in tourism marketing at the University of Canberra in Australia. He has a specific interest in the developing tourism of India and has several guest positions at various Indian universities. He has previously held positions at RMIT in Melbourne, and joined the University of Canberra in 2009.

is currently Acting Director of the Tourism and Travel Research Institute at the Christal DeHaan Centre of the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham University in the UK. Leo was previously Director of the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism in Australia. He was also a founding editor of the Journal of Communication, Culture and Tourism and his own research publications include those in Journal of Sport and Tourism, Event Management and Tourism Management.

is an Associate Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism
Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of hospitality management, marketing and sales management, and tourism. Additionally, he serves as Undergraduate Program Director. Dr. Jones has more than thirty years of hospitality industry experience. He joined the faculty at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. His previous academic experience includes holding the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Hospitality Management at San Francisco State University and Assistant Professor at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also has taught in the Cornell University Professional Development Program for the past 13 years. His most recent hospitality industry experience was as Vice President of Marketing for the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau (SJCVB) in San Jose, CA. Previously, he held senior level sales and marketing positions with Shangri-la International Hotels in the USA and Asia, Red Lion Hotels, and Marriott Hotels and Resorts.

was formerly the Head of the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, became Dean of Social Sciences and is now Head of the Department of Media, Film and Communication. Geoff acted as an examiner while still Head of Tourism, and in that role was successful in several research applications.  During that period Geoff published many papers relating to tourism including the impacts of tourist use on New Zealand's back country, and hosted many conferences including the 2nd New Zealand National Tourism Conference. His publications include articles in Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, GeoJournal and Australian Geographer.

is Head of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Murdoch University, Western Australia.  His publications are numerous and include work in Annals of Tourism Research, Annals of Leisure Research, Current Issues in Tourism and Tourism Recreation Research.  He is the co-editor of Regional Tourism Cases: Innovation in Regional Tourism.

is the Associate Dean of Research at Auckland University of Technology, where is he also Professor of Tourism, and he is also Adjunct Professor of Tourism at McGill University, Canada. He is also the representative for Tourism on the PBRF Research Assessment Exercise in New Zealand.  He has published in journals such as Journal of Event and Conference Management, Tourism Geographies and Annals of Tourism Research. His books include Caribbean Tourism: More than Sun, Sand and Sea, Generating agritourism options in the Caribbean: a cost effective model Jamaica, WI, Ian Randle Publishers.

is based at the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff. Originally a historian he can be said to have discovered tourism when writing a history of the seaside resorts of South West England. After a career in Welsh local government he has successfully pursued an academic career and is an Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research, a key member of the Tourism Critical Studies Group and a co-editor of the book The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies. He has published widely including in the top tourism journals, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Annals of Tourism Research.

is Deputy Dean of the School of Post-Graduate Studies at James Cook University and Professor in Tourism Marketing. Bruce has over 100 publications and has a strong interest in visitor behaviours and motivations and the implications for destination planning, especially with reference to areas of tropical rain forest and tropical reefs - all of which fit in with his home location of Cairns in Australia's North Queensland. He is also proud of past military service in the Australian armed forces.

lectures at Winona State University in the Department of Recreation, Tourism and Therapeutic Recreation. He is, in fact, a New Zealander. Roger in many ways wrote the original seminal publications that related the impact of films on the tourism industry with his analysis of the impact of films such as Field of Dreams.  He has published in the leading journals such as Journal of Travel Research and Annals of Tourism Research.

lectures in Operations and Production Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Aegean, Greece and is a Visiting Professor in Operations and Technology Management at the University of Fan S. Noli of Korca, Albania. She previously taught at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and the University of Westminster, London in the UK. She has published in international journals such as International Journal of Hospitality Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, Journal of Foodservice Business Research and Journal of Marketing Communications, and has also published two books related to information and communications technologies applications and management. She is former President of ENTER.

is currently Vicar in Charge of St Josephs and St James, Spofforth, UK and was formerly responsible for tourism doctoral studies at Nottingham Trent University, and prior to that Head of the Department of Archaeology at Leicester University. Her books include Managing Sacred Sites: Service Provision and Visitor Experience. And Visitor Management: Case Studies from World Heritage Sites and she is well known for her work on interpretation of places of pilgrimage and religious significance.

spent 8 years working in sales and marketing within the professional photographic products sector. He then spent four years pursuing a career in travel photography /journalism before completing his MSc Tourism (Strathclyde University) and, subsequently, his PhD (Lancaster University). His academic career commenced at Luton University, followed by positions at the University of Northumbria (Reader in Tourism) and the University of Lincoln (Professor of Tourism / Head of Department, Tourism & Recreation). He joined Lancashire Business School in 2007 as Professor of Tourism. Richard is the author of several books including Tourism and Development in the Developing World and Tourism, Tourists and Society while he has published in leading tourism journals that include Tourism Management and Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Current Issues in Tourism.

Professor John Tribe from Surrey University, UK, is perhaps best known for his work analyzing the nature of tourism and for being Co-Chair of the UN World Tourism Organisation Education Council, Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Tourism Research and Chair of the Editorial Board of Higher Education Academy Network Journal of Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Education. .

Associate Professor Stephen Wearing lectures at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has taught as Visiting Fellow at a number of Universities in his 25 year career at UTS, including Wageningen University, Netherlands (12 years); Newcastle Universt Australia (10 years) and Macquarie University, Australia (7 years). Dr Wearing has received awards from Industry and Government for his work in the Leisure and Tourism fields (2007 Frank Steward Award for his major contributions to the Parks and Leisure industry, 1992 from the Costa Rican Government for services to youth, conservation and community).

holds her position at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University, Australia. She holds a PhD from the University of Victoria (Canada) and has some 25 years of international research and publishing experience. While best known for her work in nature-based and heritage tourism, interpretation, and especially tour guiding, she has also published on a range of visitor behaviour and management topics based on her work with national parks, zoos, heritage attractions, tour operators and inbound Chinese tour groups. More recently her work has focused on the use of persuasive communication by guides and others to influence tourist behaviour. In addition to some 150 publications, Betty is a multi-award winning PhD supervisor and an editorial board member of five international tourism journals.