Stefan Kruger was born in Kroonstad, in the Free State Province of South Africa. After working for some time in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry (in management positions), he started an academic career at the Walter Sisulu University. He is currently employed at the School of Business Management (Tourism Management Program), North-West University, Potchefstroom. He holds a Doctorate degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management. His research interests include Quality of Life, Subjective Well-being, Positive Psychology in Tourism and Hospitality. Since 2004, he has published various peer-reviewed articles in DHET accredited journals and has attended various conferences, both nationally and internationally. In 2008 he was invited by the Hungarian Ministry of Local Government as the only South African to participate in a workshop on tourism-specific quality of life methodology in Budapest. Stefan has been elected as editorial board member and/or reviewer for the well acclaimed Journal of Applied Research in Quality of Life (2012), Tourism Analysis: A multidisciplinary journal (Editorial board member, 2014) and the African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure (African Advisory editorial and/or reviewer board, 2014). Stefan has been appointed as the Regional Editor for Africa: Tourism Analysis and Interdisciplinary Journal in 2014. He is currently a member of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the South African Chefs Association, the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa, CHASA, and has completed his dedicated hunting license certificate.

Muzaffer Uysal is a professor and chair in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts. He is a member of International Academy for the Study of Tourism, the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and serves as co-founder of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of more than ten journals, including Journal of Travel Research and Annals of Tourism Research. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, monographs, and several books related to tourism research methods, tourist service satisfaction, tourism and quality-of-life, experience value in tourism, tourism-related scales, and management science applications in tourism and hospitality. Dr. Uysal has received a number of awards for research, excellence in international education, teaching excellence, and best paper awards. His current research interests focus on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development, and quality-of-life research in tourism.

M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He is the author/editor of many books related to consumer marketing and quality of life. He also served as editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995-present). He received Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008. In 2010, ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010 he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011 also he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012 he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and ground breaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research. He also was the editor of ISQOLS/Springer book series on handbooks in QOL research and the community QOL indicators best practices.

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“Timely and valuable . . . Focusing on management science applications in hospitality and tourism systems, the book provides a blend of analysis that draws from both theory and evidence-based perspectives. [It] contributes to the advancement of understanding of the importance on data analysis, interpretation, and information generation for improved management decision-making in hospitality and tourism. . . The compilation of topics discussed represent important contributions from several well-established and high-profile scholars that offer interesting insights into management science. . . . The book’s strength lies in the fact that it draws not only from the contributors’ expertise on the applications of management science in the hospitality and tourism field but also from their diverse geographic backgrounds . . . A valuable contribution to students and researchers of hospitality and tourism as well as practitioners of the field who wish to advance their knowledge of management science applications and their associated implications within the hospitality and tourism setting.”

―Tourism Analysis, review by Anna Farmaki, Cyprus University of Technology Limassol, Cyprus

Muzaffer Uysal, PhD, is a professor of tourism in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia. He has extensive experience in the travel and tourism field, authoring or co-authoring a significant number of articles in tourism, hospitality, and recreation journals, proceedings, and book chapters. He has edited four monographs and four books related to tourism research methods, tourist service satisfaction, tourism and quality-of-life, and consumer psychology in tourism and hospitality settings. He also has conducted workshops and seminars on similar topics and field research in several countries. He is a member of International Academy for the Study of Tourism, the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and serves as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of Travel Research and the Annals of Tourism Research. He received a number of awards for research and teaching. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development, and QOL research in tourism.

Zvi Schwartz, Ph, is J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Senior Faculty Fellow for Hospitality Finance and Revenue ManagementAssociate Professor in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. He has published several articles in professional journals, has guest edited issues, and is on the editorial boards of several journals. His current research interests include revenue management, strategic pricing, decision theory, and advanced reservation environments.

Ercan (Sirakaya) Turk, PhD, is a Sloan Research Professor of tourism in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. He received his PhD and MS from Clemson University, South Carolina. He is the 2006–2007 recipient of US State Department’s prestigious Fulbright scholarship to teach tourism and conduct destination development and branding studies in Russia. Before joining USC, Professor Dr. Turk was a faculty member at Texas A&M University (1998-2006) and the Pennsylvania State University (1996-1998). Dr. Turk has published a significant number of articles in the area of tourism destination marketing and developmental policy in prestigious tourism journals, such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, and Tourism Analysis. He is the founding and current associate editor-in-chief for the online tourism research bulletin e-Review of Tourism Research. He also serves on editorial boards of several major journals, including the Journal of Travel Research and Tourism Analysis, and is a field reviewer for numerous academic journals. He serves as a member in an international Think Tank group (BEST-EN) that deals with issues of sustainable tourism development issues in developing countries. His dissertation work has received a prestigious TTRA’s William B. Keeling award. He served as a faculty senator and was a member of the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Board in Human Research Subjects) of Texas A&M University (2002-2005). He teaches tourism economics, marketing, and research methods classes. Currently, he is completing a research methods book and numerous publications pertaining to branding places and sustainability.

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