Rachel Kelly is a multi-award winning journalist with over 15 years of experience under her belt. Rachel has covered various significant events across the globe, having her career span across Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the US. She started off her career in broadcast journalism in 2007 and was one of the first journalists to report for multiple platforms, encompassing TV, radio and print nationwide. Well versed in business current affairs, she was recognised for her skills in financial reporting and was recently awarded Investor Education Journalist of the Year 2021 and a Special Award for Financial Journalism in 2012 for the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) Investors' Choice Awards. Rachel was also recognised for her work in covering environmental issues by the Singapore Environment Council. Rachel takes pride with having worked with prominent figures globally, the most memorable interviews she has conducted are those with Jane Goodall, Jack Ma, and Christine Lagarde.

Gerardine Donough-Tan writes for trade media, specialising in business events/MICE and travel & tourism. She also consults and conducts training in Marketing PR. At JCUS, she teaches MICE in the Master’s program and previously taught Disaster Resilience in the Master's in Planning & Urban Design. Her previous corporate experience was in Singapore Airlines, Tradewinds Tours & Travel and TTG Asia Media. Voluntary activities include guiding in museums and heritage trails. She is a member of the Singapore Press Club and Institute of Public Relations of Singapore and sits in the Heritage Committee of the Eurasian Association.

Dr Zohre Mohammadi is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Tourism at James Cook University, Singapore. She received her PhD in Tourism in 2019 with her qualitative study on Childhood Travel Experiences and Motivations. She has a number of papers published in prestigious international journals and conferences, as well as book chapters. She has also served as a reviewer for journals and a member of scientific committees for conferences. Additionally, she benefits from conducting her research using novel qualitative methods, and she is quite confident in deploying and exploring this approach more extensively in future research activities.