C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and a visiting professor at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, and Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, sustainability and gastronomy. He is co-Editor, with Chris Cooper, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.

Chris Cooper is Professor of Tourism at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published and edited widely in tourism. He works with international tourism agencies, including the UNWTO and was awarded the United Nations WTO Ulysses prize for contributions to tourism policy and education in 2009. He is co-Editor, with C. Michael Hall, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.