Dogan Gursoy, PhD is the Taco Bell Distinguished Professor in Hospitality Business Management at Washington State University in the School of Hospitality Business Management and the editor of the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management. He is also the recipient of the 2021 ICHRIE Lifetime Research Achievement Award and the 2019 University of Delaware's Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award.

Sedat Çelik, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Sirnak University, Turkey. He completed his doctorate at Akdeniz University. His research interests are destination, tourism management, organizational behavior and the social psychology of tourism. He is referee for many important journals. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Issues (JOHTI).