Erdinç Çakmak is Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests are informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism and conflict-ridden destinations.
Rami K. Isaac is Senior Fellow at the Academy for Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Bethlehem University, Palestine and has been working for 20 years in the field.
Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde University and has been active for more than 40 years in the field. He is co-editor of Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness (with Tej Vir Singh and David Fennell, Channel View Publications, 2023).