Below is the list of internationally well-known scholars who have confirmed their participation in and contribution to the conference as session chairs:

Levent ALTINAY, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Luisa ANDREU, University of Valencia, Spain
Seyhmus BALOGLU, UNLV, USA
Rahim Heydari CHIANEH, University of Tabriz, Iran
Antonia CORREIA, University of Algarve, Portugal
Alain DECROP, University of Namur, Belgium
Sara DOLNICAR, University of Wollongong, Australia
John FLETCHER, Bournemouth University, UK
Alan FYALL, Bournemouth University, UK
Juergen GNOTH, University of Otago, New Zealand
Charles GOELDNER, University of Colorado, USA
Tzung-Cheng HUAN, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Jafar JAFARI, University of Wisconsion-Stout, USA
SooCheong (Shawn) Jang, Purdue University, USA
Christian LAESSER, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sonja LIEBE, Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Slovenia
Meral KORZAY, Bogazici University, Turkey
Norain OTHMAN, Universiti Teknologi. MARA, Malaysia
Rick PURDUE, Virginia Tech, USA
Arie REICHEL, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yvette REISINGER, Singapore
Chris RYAN, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Marianna SIGALA, University of the Aegean, Greece
Ercan SIRAKAYA-TURK, University of South Caroline, USA
Hailin QU, Oklohama State University, USA
John URRY, Lancaster University, UK
Allan M. WILLIAMS, London Metropolitan University, UK
Arch WOODSIDE, Boston College, USA
Hamid ZARGHAM, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Iran