Ekaterina Nikolaenko is Translator/Interpreter at the Department of International Cooperation of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. She has been working for the university since 2002 and since 2003 has been engaged in English language training (Business English, ESP, Translation Studies). She is also an active participant of various training programs and workshops, among which there are such workshops as “Planning, forming and assessing the graduate’s learning outcomes in engineering education” (Paris, France), Senior management development training program (Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, GB), “Education and mobility: developing engineering academics” (Estoril, Portugal), “Quality of university management and Bologna Process” (Vienna University of Technology, Austria).

Natalia Goncharova is associate professor of the Department of Social Communications at National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). She got her PhD in Economics from Baltic Academy of Tourism and Entrepreneurship in 2014. Natalia Goncharova was a key participant of 2 Tempus projects (EU): The development of Master Program in Tourism at Tomsk Polytechnic University (2009-2011) with participation of EU partner-universities, and Tourism lifelong learning network (2012-2016) on academic mobility. As a result, N. Goncharova has got the experience of training and lecturing abroad: Vienna University of Applied Sciences (Austria); Aalborg University (Denmark); Edinburgh Napier University (UK); University of Brighton (UK). Her current research interests are tourism destination management, sustainable smart cities, cultural marketing, and cultural heritage preservation.

Irina Kondratyeva is associate professor of Social Communications Department of Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences & Technologies at National Research, Tomsk Polytechnic University. In 2011 the PhD was received. She participated in the international grant "Comparative media regulation of mass media market" (Russia, Estonia, Hungary). In 2011, as part of the International Master Program Tourism Siberian Regions project in the Tempus program, held an internship at the Corvinus University (Hungary), and participated in the development of the "Innovations in Tourism" course. As a result, "Innovation in Tourism" textbook was published. In December 2013 she took part in another Tempus program, studied Tourism in Umeo University (Sweden), in March 2014participated in training at the in FH Wien University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Tourism Management in the Tourism Lifelong Learning Network project (Austria).

Tatiana Konyukhova is associate professor in Social Communications Department, Tomsk Polytechnic University. She got her PhD in Philosophy in 2005 and has been working for the university for 12 years. Tatiana graduated the Departmant of Foreign Languages in 2002. She took part in many grant-supported programs (Tempus, CEU, etc.) for developing academic programs and courses for bachelor and master students in the sphere of tourism and PR, language programs in Europe and Asia.

Nina Nikolaenko graduated from Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute, English Language Department, in 1980.Qualification: English teacher. Additional skills: Translation and interpreting (E/R). PhD in philology, 2007, Tomsk. (Theme of thesis: N.Hawthorne's romance in the genre system of the Russian literature: some problems of reception).