Narcìs Bassols i Gardella is a Lecturer in Sustainable Destination Development at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Sweden. He researches cultural and urban tourism, communitarian aspects of tourism, destination development, and sustainability in hospitality. He has recently written about tourism entrepreneurship and emerging destinations via several tourism cases published by CABI. Other recent publications include his papers about the frameworks and ideas on historic centres in Latin America (Journal of Heritage Tourism), about racial segregation in heritage cities (Historia, University of Santiago), about the shifts and evolutions of guided tours in the post-pandemic context (International Journal of Tourism Cities), and about the possibilities of adaptive reuse of heritage buildings (Journal of Urban Culture Research).
Ulrika Persson-Fischier is a lecturer at Uppsala university, Sweden. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oslo. Her research includes sustainability, co-creative methodologies, entrepreneurship, and tourism education, with a focus on cruise tourism, community empowerment, and Nordic settings like Iceland and Gotland in the Baltic, but also other islands like Rapa Nui in the Pacific. Recent publications include articles on open-space methodology for community tourism development (Scandinavian Journal of Tourism and Hospitality), responsible cruise tourism in Iceland, cruise tourism in the Pacific, and the role of authenticity for sustainable tourism development.
Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. He also serves as Distinguished Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include regional and local development, sustainability in tourism, tourism and climate change, resilience studies, tourism-community relations, and nature conservation studies. His recent publications include co-authored and co-edited books: Handbook on Tourism Governance (2025, Elgar), Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa (2022, Routledge), Southern African Perspectives in Sustainable Tourism Management (2022, Springer), Tourism, Change and the Global South (2021, Routledge), and Resilient Destinations (2019, Routledge).
