Şule Aydın was born in Artvin, she graduated from Mersin University, Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Management in 1994. After completing her graduate education in Department of Tourism Management at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University between 1996-1998. She completed doctorate education at Dokuz Eylül University in Department of Tourism Management between 1998-2004. Prof. Dr. Aydın was a faculty member at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (2004-2011), Trakya University (2012) and Batman University (2015-2016). Since 2017, Dr. Şule Aydin has been an on-duty dean Faculty of Tourism at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University. Her research interest includes hotel management, organizational behavior, human research management.
Bekir Dedoglu earned Ph.D. degree from in the tourism management department at Akdeniz University and at the present time, is working in the Tourism Faculty at the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University in Turkey. His research areas include destination marketing, destination branding, tourist behavior, and hospitality marketing. He has published articles in professional journals including Tourism Management, the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, the Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management and the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. Dr. Dedeoğlu has also served as reviewer for top tourism and hospitality journals such as Tourism Management, Tourism Management Perspectives, International Journal of Hospitality Management, etc.
Omer Coban works as an assistant professor at Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Guidance. Omer Coban, who also serves as the Vice Dean of the faculty, has various activities on event tourism, sustainable tourism and organizational behavior.