Brooke A. Porter is Associate Professor of Food & Sustainability Studies, Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy. Her research interests include marine and aquatic conservation, tourism as a development, conservation and management strategy and social entrepreneurship tourism.

Heike A. Schänzel is Associate Professor and Programme Leader Postgraduate in International Tourism Management at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests include tourist behaviour, families in tourism, sociality in tourism and gender issues.

Joseph M. Cheer is Research Professor, Wakayama University, Japan and Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include social-ecological resilience, Asia-Pacific, tourism geographies and anthropology of tourism.