Keyan G Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and founder and co-editor of Critical Arts. His applied research on cultural tourism from the perspectives of both subjects and tourists is widely published and impactful of actual ventures across South Africa.

Lauren Dyll is a National Research Foundation-rated scholar and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal with research interests in cultural heritage and tourism, participation, identity and knowledge production. She is co-chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, and is co-editor of the journal, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.