Siamak Seyfi is a lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. Using primarily qualitative and mixed methods, his research interests focus on tourism politics and geopolitics, political ecology and tourism, power and the environment.

C. Michael Hall is Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. He has published widely on tourism, regional development, global environmental change, sustainability, food, and World Heritage.