Dr. Edward W. (Ted) Manning is the President of the Tourisk Inc. and a lecturer in tourism and environmental topics internationally. From 1993 to 2002 he served as Director Sustainable Development and Environmental Management for Consulting and Audit Canada, providing consulting and training services in Canada and internationally. Since 1992 he has also served as Associate Director of the Centre for a Sustainable Future for the Foundation for International Training. He is the author of 21 books and over 100 articles on sustainable tourism, community development and environmental planning topics. He has worked in over 40 countries on sustainable development, tourism and integrated planning projects, and run training programs on these topics for private sector and government managers. His previous posts include Executive Manager of Sustainable Tourism for Tourism Canada, Associate Director of Sustainable Development for Environment Canada, Chief Land Use Policy and Chief of Planning Systems for Environment Canada and Senior Planner, Caribbean, for the Canadian International Development Agency. Since 1990 he has also been an Adjunct Research Professor in the Geography Department of Carleton University. Since 1993, Dr. Manning has been the lead consultant on indicators for sustainable tourism development for the World Tourism Organization. He is a former President of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and Director of the Social Science Federation of Canada and currently serves as Chair of the Program Committee for the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome. He is a recipient of the Miguel Aleman Medal (Mexico) for services in the field of tourism and also recipient of the Jubilee Medal for services to the government of Canada.

Margo Manning is Chief Executive Officer of Tourisk Inc. Trained as a sociologist and librarian, Margo has worked as librarian for Canada's Regional Development agency and for Environment Canada and also as an administrator and lecturer in environmental management training and tourism development programs in Mexico, Romania, China and Turkey. She has worked on projects for the Black Sea University and Global Environmental Facility related to the rehabilitation of tourism in the Black Sea region, and has been a facilitator and researcher in sustainable tourism projects in Argentina, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. She also has extensive experience as a trainer for environmental management projects in China and Eastern Europe. She is co-author of several studies on indicators of sustainable tourism, and also provides training programs in workplace health and safety, hotel and resort audit, and environmental awareness and certification procedures for tourism destinations. She has been an active contributor to World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and Business Enterprises for Sustainable Tourism (BEST) workshops on improvement of sustainability for Tourism.