Melanie Smith is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Tourism Management with twelve years of experience. She was previously Director of the BA Tourism Management and MA Cultural Tourism Management at the University of Greenwich in London, UK. She is now based at Corvinus University, Budapest in Hungary, where she delivers specialist courses workshops and keynote speeches in Tourism. She has taught across a wide spectrum of Tourism Studies and Tourism Management courses, with specialisms in Cultural Tourism and Health and Wellness Tourism. She is the author of two books, as well as numerous book chapters and articles about tourism, and she has edited three further books and a special edition of a journal. Melanie is also currently Chair of ATLAS ( the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education), a network which has over 300 members in more than 70 countries.

Nicola MacLeod is a Principal Lecturer in Tourism at the University of

Greenwich where she contributes to a range of undergraduate and

postgraduate programmes. She has over 15 years of experience in teaching

and researching in higher education and her publications include Leisure

and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies (2002) with C.

Aitchison and S. Shaw and a number of journal articles on the development,

role and design of heritage trails

Dr. Margaret Hart Robertson is Scottish, living and working permanently in the Canary Islands, Spain. She studied Joint Honours Hispanic Studies and French Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow whereafter she moved to Spain, first living and working in Granada and then Gran Canaria. She took a Master¿s Course in International Tourism at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she also read her thesis in the area of Translation and Interpreting with an intercultural study on the Difficulties of Translating Humour. At present, she is Director of the Master¿s Course in Integral Development of Tourist Resorts, and Director of the PhD course on Integral Tourism Solutions, Inter-Cultural Studies and Sustainable Development at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Simultaneous Interpreting and a professional Conference Interpreter. Her publications in Tourism centre on the interface of her studies in general in the fields of Interpreting and Interpretation, inter-cultural communication and Intangible Heritage, Identity and Governance, together with the cross-cutting theme of Mature Tourism and Tourist Resorts, Re-Cycling, E- tourism and Innovation, both of particular importance for the geographical area of the Canary Islands, famed for their long tradition in Tourism and next door to the African Continent.