Jillian Rickly is an Assistant Professor of Tourism Marketing and Management in the Nottingham University Business School at The University of Nottingham. She is a tourism geographer working in the areas of geohumanities and mobilities studies. Her work weaves together environmental perceptions, identity and bio-politics, and performance theories to consider the relations between travel motivation and experience. From this foundation, she has published widely on the concept of authenticity in tourism studies.
Scott Cohen is a Reader in Tourism Management and Deputy Director of Research for the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom). Scott primarily researches sociological and consumer behaviour issues in tourism, transport and leisure contexts, with particular interests in sustainable mobility, hypermobility and in lifestyle travel. He has published more than 35 journal articles and two edited books since completing his PhD in 2009, including high impact outlets such as Environment and Planning A, Journal of Cleaner Production, Population, Space and Place, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Transport Geography, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel Research and Mobilities. He is co-editor of Understanding and Governing Sustainable Tourism Mobility (Routledge, 2014) and Lifestyle Mobilities (Ashgate, 2013). Scott has been awarded as "Researcher of the Year" by his Faculty at the University of Surrey (2015), as an "Emerging Scholar of Distinction" by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (2013) and was co-recipient of the Journal of Travel Research's "Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award" (2015). He serves as a Resource Editor in Sociology for Annals of Tourism Research, an Editorial Board member for Current Issues in Tourism and Tourism Review International, and as Book Review Editor for Anatolia.
Deepak Chhabra is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the School of Community Resources and Development (USA). She also holds the position of a senior sustainability scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her research interests include socio-economic impacts of tourism and smart and sustainable management and marketing of heritage tourism. She has written extensively on the authenticity of heritage.
Peter Lugosi is a Reader at the Oxford School of Hospitality Management, Oxford Brookes University. His work draws on the concepts and methods of sociology and geography in examining contemporary hospitality, tourism and leisure. Peter's research and publications consider a wide range of subjects including consumer behaviour, customer experience management, hospitality and spatial transformation, migrant labour and adjustment, research methods and organisational culture.
Michael Zichy, Assistant Professor for Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, studied Philosophy and Catholic Theology in Salzburg. After assignments as Doctoral Researcher in Salzburg (2000-03), Secretary General of the Austrian Association of Philosophy (2002-05), Freelance Consultant at the European Commission in Brussels (2004-05), Coordinator of the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research in Salzburg (2005-06), and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute TTN at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (2006-11), he returned to Salzburg in 2011. Recent publications: Zichy et al. (2014): Energie aus Biomasse - ein ethisches Diskussionsmodell, second, revised edition, Springer, Wiesbaden. Zichy et al. (2014): Ethik und Recht in der Fortpflanzungsmedizin. Herausforderungen, Diskussionen, Perspektiven, Nomos, Baden-Baden. Zichy/Grimm/Ostheimer (ed.) (2014): Was ist ein moralisches Problem? Zur Frage des Gegenstandes Angewandter Ethik, second edition, Alber, Freiburg/München. Zichy/Friedrich (ed.) (2014): Persönlichkeit: Neurowissenschaftliche und neurophilosophische Fragestellungen, Mentis, Paderborn. Co-founder and co-editor of the peer-reviewed online journal "Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie" (www.praktische-philosophie.org).
Robert Schäfer studied sociology and religious studies in Berne (Switzerland), his dissertation was about tourism and the concept of authenticity (http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2744-2/tourismus-und-authentizitaet). He worked as scientific assistant and lecturer at Berne, Magdeburg and Landau (Germany) and is now post-doc-assistant at Fribourg (Switzerland). His main interests are about qualitative methods, time-diagnosis and cultural sociology.Recent publications: Schäfer, Robert (2015). Tourismus und Authentizität. Zur gesellschaftlichen Organisation von Außeralltäglichkeit. Bielefeld, transcript. Schäfer, Robert (2015) Die Komplementarität von innerweltlicher Askese und artistischer Lebensführung. Zur Kritik zeitdiagnostischer Ästhetisierungsthesen, Berliner Journal für Soziologie: Band 25, Heft 1 (2015), Seite 187-213.Schäfer, Robert (2014). Zur Strukturlogik des Tourismus. In: Pop. Kultur und Kritik (Online-Artikel: http://www.pop-zeitschrift.de/2014/10/29/zur-strukturlogik-des-tourismusvon-robert-schafer29-10-2014/)Schäfer, Robert (2013). Zeigen, Sprechen und Meinen. In: F. Ofner, F. Nungesser (Hg.), Potentiale einer pragmatistischen Sozialtheorie. Beiträge anlässlich des 150. Geburtstages von Georg Herbert Mead. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Sonderheft 12, S. 181 - 194