Andrew Sheivachman graduated in 2010 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before joining Travel Market Report, he covered the hotel industry for Hotel Management Magazine and wrote about Las Vegas travel for Travel Agent Magazine and Luxury Travel Advisor. His work also has appeared in The Huffington Post, The New York Sun and Patch.com.

Michele McDonald is editor and publisher of Travel Technology Update, an industry newsletter for distribution and revenue management professionals in the travel industry. She also is a contributing writer and webcast moderator for Air Transport World and writes frequently on distribution and technology issues. She has covered the travel industry for more than 25 years, with emphases on the airline industry, technology and distribution. Previously, she was editor of Travel Distribution Report and managing editor of Travel Weekly.

Trends expert Daniel Levine is director of the Avant-Guide Institute trends consultancy; global editor of the social trends website WikiTrend.org, and leader of an international team of more than 9,000 trend spotters who research and chronicle the latest ideas, products and experiences from around the globe. As a consultant, Daniel helps tourism and other consumer-oriented businesses be more innovative, inspirational and profitable.  Daniel started his career writing 10 of Frommer's top-selling travel guide books.

Harvey Chipkin has been writing about the travel business for many years, with a focus on the hospitality industry, the meetings and incentive market, and the travel agency profession. His work has appeared in Convene, Lodging Magazine, Hotel News Now, ASTA Agency Management, Travel Weekly, Travel Professional magazine, the website Luxury Travel 360, Hotelier (in Canada) and many others. His editorial work as a contributor to Frequent Flyer Magazine garnered several top journalism awards. While Harvey has specialized in the hotel industry in recent years, he has a long history of writing about the concerns and issues of the travel agent community. Harvey also performs improvisational comedy in New Jersey with his group, Lunatic Fringe; and in New York at Sunday Night Improv.

Marilee Crocker is a business and travel trade journalist who has covered the travel and meeting planning industries for various publications since the 1980s. She was managing editor of Travel Weekly and Meetings & Conventions magazine, and a senior contributing editor to Travel Professional. Marilee's in-depth reporting on industry and consumer trends has earned her multiple editorial accolades, including Folio Gold and Silver awards for excellence in reporting. Her interest in home-based business inspired Marilee to launch biz@home, a twice-monthly newspaper column that ran for many years and was nationally syndicated. Marilee lives on Cape Cod!