Joseph M. Cheer is at Western Sydney University and is board member of the International Geography Union (IGU) Commission on Tourism and Leisure and Global Change. His research draws from transdisciplinary perspectives, especially human/economic geography, cultural anthropology and political economy. Joseph is focused on research to practice with an emphasis on resilience building, sustainability and social justice in tourism. He recently published 'Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change' and 'Tourism Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change' (with Alan Lew).
Solène Prince is senior lecturer in tourism studies at Mid-Sweden University and a researcher at the European Tourism Research Institute, Sweden. Her recent publications have featured in Island Studies Journal, Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Heritage Tourism. She is on the advisory board of Sicri Network - Small Island Cultures Research Initiatives. She recently completed her post-doctoral project at Linnaeus University, Sweden (2021) where she studied ancestral tourism practices and dynamics. Her current research project is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. His doctoral degree at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia), completed in 1996, concerned intercultural communication between Australian and Papua New Guinean performers on the Tabaran music project. He founded the online journal of island and maritime studies Shima in 2007 and continues to edit it. He has written and edited 19 books, including, most recently Cruisicology: the music culture of cruise ships (2019, co-authored with David Cashman). He has also published a number of articles about tourism and cultural heritage in Ryukyu-ko.