Trevor Sofield is Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In over 400 publications on numerous research projects and consultancies in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Latin America, he has researched on tourism policy, community-based development for poverty alleviation and empowerment, UNESCO World Heritage issues as well as Indigenous and cultural tourism, among others.
Lawal Mohammed Marafa is Professor at the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include ecotourism, community-based sustainable development, and leisure and recreation.
Fung Mei Sarah Li is a researcher with degrees from Hong Kong, England and Australia. Her research interests cover tourism policy and planning for development, heritage and cultural tourism, as well as geological and cave tourism, among others.
Kwo Fung Shek is a talented emerging scholar who, for a decade, has been instrumental in the development of pilgrimage tourism by the Hakka community of Yim Tin Tsai in Hong Kong.