Prof. Dr. Atila Yüksel, Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Turizm Fakültesi Yiyecek ve İçecek İşletmeciliği Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Turizm pazarlaması, turist davranışı ve deneyimi, gastronomi, bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri ve eleştirel turizm çalışmaları alanlarında araştırmalar yürütmektedir. Çalışmaları Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism ve Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research gibi seçkin uluslararası dergilerde yayımlanmıştır. Çok sayıda yüksek lisans ve doktora tezine danışmanlık yapan Yüksel; Being and Becoming a Researcher in the Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Field, Yemeğin Derinlikleri: Tüketimden Anlamaya, Aykırı: Bilimsel Araştırmalarda Yanılsamalar; Androgoji: Yetişknler Eğitimde  kitaplarının yazarı; Tourist Satisfaction and Complaining Behaviour, Heritage Tourism Destinations: Preservation, Communication and Development ile Sosyal Bilimlerde Araştırma Yöntemleri kitaplarının editörlerindendir. Çalışmalarında turizmi yalnızca ekonomik bir faaliyet olarak değil; insan, toplum, kültür, bilinç ve anlam ekseninde sorgulanması gereken çok katmanlı bir olgu olarak ele almaktadır. Akademik çalışmalarında yerleşik araştırma felsefesinin ve mevcut bilimsel pratiklerin çoğu zaman sorgulanmamış ve sorunlu temeller üzerinde yükseldiğini; yayımlanmış olmanın bir araştırmayı kendiliğinden güvenilir kılmadığını ve bilimsel literatürdeki birçok çalışmanın yöntemsel, epistemolojik ve etik açıdan yeniden değerlendirilmesi gerektiğini savunmaktadır. Bu eleştirel yaklaşımını konuşmaları, Bilginin Sınırında adlı podcast programı ile Being & Becoming a Researcher ve Bilginin Sınırında YouTube kanalları üzerinden daha geniş kitlelerle paylaşmaktadır. Akademik üretiminin yanında edebiyat alanında altı roman kaleme alan Yüksel, insanın kendisiyle, bilgiyle ve yaşamla kurduğu ilişkiyi merkeze alan farkındalık atölyeleri de düzenlemektedir.

Dr. Christina K. Dimitriou is a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) and Certified Online Instructor who has been teaching undergraduate and graduate tourism and hospitality courses for twenty-five years in Europe and the United States. She has industry experience in hotels and her research accomplishments include journal articles, book chapters, conference posters and presentations at regional, national and international conferences. She has served as a scientific committee member, conference moderator, and manuscript reviewer for prestigious journals and conferences in the fields of hospitality, tourism, and healthcare. She also holds several editorial positions in the tourism and hospitality field, demonstrating her dedicated commitment to advancing scholarly research and fostering community engagement on a global scale.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Algarve, a Master's from University of Lisbon, a Ph.D. from the University of Algarve (Portugal), and an aggregation at University of Algarve. She has been an associate professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Economics since January 2024, invited Full Professor at Universidad Europea, Canarias, President of the first collaborative laboratory in Tourism, and Coordinator of the tourism and hospitality research line at CEFAGE. She was also Dean of the tourism faculty at Universidade Europeia from 2014 to 2021. At the international level, she is affiliated with TRC - Tourism Research Center and she has served as an expert in evaluating projects, PhD and Master courses, and doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in the United Nations, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, Horizon Europe, QS University Rankings, Assumption Business Administration College, (Thailand), Croatia National Agency. She is also a member of the executive board of Advances of Tourism Marketing Conference (ATMC), a conference with 20 years. Further, she sits on several organizing and scientific committees worldwide. She acts as an editorial board member of CIT, JTR, Anatolia, CBTH, JHTM, and JHTI and is the editor of the book series- ATMC Goodfellow Publishers. In addition, she serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for most of the tourism and hospitality journals. She is also involved in several tourism-based national and international research projects, particularly with her partners based in Europe. She was also invited as a guest lecturer in STHM, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA, Cartagena University, Cagliari University, ISEG, Aveiro University, IPL, ESHTE, ISCTE. Her research has been published in top-tier journals, special issues, book chapters, and books. She has supervised almost 40 master's dissertations, 13 doctoral theses, and 5 post-doctoral projects. Her work has received over five thousand citations counted by Google Scholar. She was nominated as an outstanding reviewer by Emerald (2019), among other awards and recognitions. Her research interests entail tourism consumer behaviour, marketing, and image. Tourism economics and models are also some of her research passions.

Holding a PhD in Geography from Grenoble Alpes University, France, I am passionate about foresight and future studies on tourism. I hold a Master’s degree in Tourism, Innovation, and Transition and a Bachelor's and a Master's in Tourism Management. I aim to inspire and inform the tourism community and the public about tourism development, transformation opportunities, and challenges.

Dr. Siao Fui Wong is Assistant Professor in Modul School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Nanjing, Nanjing Tech University Pujiang Institute, China. Her research focuses on destination branding and marketing, sense of place, and qualitative content analysis