Dr Gyan Nyaupane is a Professor in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University, He currently serves as a Provost and Dean's Fellow in the Graduate College.

Kathleen Andereck's research focuses on the tourism experience from the perspective of both visitors and residents particularly as it applies to sustainable tourism.

Dan Fellner is an eight-time Fulbright Fellow and experienced journalist who has worked in television news, corporate public relations and travel writing for newspapers and magazines around the world.

Dr. McWilliams teaches tourism, lodging, and management courses. She has co-facilitated study abroad experiences to Belize, Fiji, Australia, and Botswana and is co-advisor for the Tourism Student Association at ASU.

Mings served as a professor at ASU from 1970 to 1997. His teaching included world regional geography, Latin America, recreation, and research methods. He helped found and remains active with the Arizona Geographic Alliance.

Berman's research areas include globalization studies, humanitarianism, tourism, German orientalism and colonialism, Germans in Africa, and intercultural hermeneutics.