Maria Gravari-Barbas is an architect and geographer. She is Professor and Director of the Institute for Research and High Studies of Tourism (IREST) and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Team for Tourism Research (EIREST), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the contemporary production of urban spaces in relation to tourism, architecture, heritage and festive phenomena.

Sandra Guinand is an urban-planner and geographer. She is a FNS Fellow, visiting researcher at the Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Vienna University, associate researcher at EIREST, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and Centre Jacques Berque. Her research interests focus on urban regeneration projects, socio-economical transformations of urban landscape, with a specific focus on heritage processes and public–private partnerships