Cassam Looch is Content Director at global travel platform Culture Trip. With a background in film and television, Looch specialises in analysing and documenting local travel stories on a global scale. Formerly editor of Yahoo! Movies, as well as holding roles at Metro and Hello! magazine, Looch joined Culture Trip in 2016. His series 'Beyond Hollywood', which explored global film culture, won the Muse Creative Award and won Gold at the prestigious Lovie Awards in 2019.

Gary Bowerman is a travel and consumer trends analyst and consultant specialising in China and South East Asia. He's the Asia travel analyst for Phocuswright, Asia consumer trends analyst for Mintel, and works with NTOs, destinations, hotels, market research firms and banks worldwide. He's an in-demand tourism conference speaker, with recent presentations including UNWTO, Global Tourism Economy Forum, Indonesia Ministry of Tourism, Institute of Tourism, and OneASEAN Forum. Bowerman is regularly invited by global media such as CNN, BBC, CNA, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, and China Daily to comment on Chinese and Asian travel issues. He co-founded The South East Asia Travel Show podcast and Asia Travel Re:Set.

Peden Doma Bhutia is the Asia Editor for Skift. A renowned journalist and keen adventurer, she took to travel journalism like a cartophile to an atlas. Before moving to Skift, her career with leading Indian media houses saw her setting up ET TravelWorld, one of the world's leading travel news outlets.

Kathryn Morrisby is a writer and researcher. She has worked with academics, semioticians and anthropologists for household brands like EE, Kingsmill and Cancer Research UK.