Dr Marina Novelli PhD, PgDipEd, PGDipPlanning, BSc
Reader
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643300
Email: M.Novelli@brighton.ac.uk
Biography
Marina is a geographer with a background in economics and an interest in development studies applied to tourism. She completed her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on ‘Rural and Farm Tourism: a comparative study of Apulia (Italy) and the West Country (UK)’.
She sees her mission as generating new knowledge on ways in which tourism can play a key role in stimulating local economies, conserving the environment, developing people and changing lives, which is reflected in her research and consultancy interests and expertise. These include:
- tourism planning and development
- niche tourism development and management
- rural diversification & tourism
- sustainable development approaches (i.e. community-based, responsible, pro-poor tourism)
- tourism and development in the developing world (especially sub-Saharan Africa)
- training needs analysis, capacity building & curriculum development
- travel philanthropy
Marina created the “Sustainable Tourism in the Local Economies (STILE).” Special Interest Group in 2002 and has since undertaken numerous international cooperation assignments in Europe, Asia and Africa for International Development Organisations (IDOs) such as: the World Bank, UNIDO, UNESCO, the EU, as well as National Ministries, Regional Development Agencies and NGOs.
Her volume ‘Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases’ (Oxford: Elsevier 2005) has contributed greatly to her international academic profile, with niche tourism becoming a core aspect of the global tourism development and policymaking debates.
More recently, her reputation as specialist in tourism and development in sub-Sahara Africa has come to light through her extensive applied research, publications and consultancy engagements with IDOs in some 15 Sub-Sahara Africa destinations.
She is a member of the Board of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) and she has also been involved in the assessment of entrants for the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) "Tourism for Tomorrow Awards".
Scholarly activities
- Green Africa Conference on Sustainability, 12th-15th April 2012, The Gambia.
- Keynote speaker, Africa Travel Association (ATA) Gambia Chapter 2010, Sustainable and Responsible Tourism in Africa, 17-20 May 2010.
- Keynote speaker, Niche Tourism: a way forward in tourism development in post conflict destinations? Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-4 March 2010
- Invited speaker at the Birmingham University College Seminar Series on 'Tourism and International Development: perspectives from sub-Sahara Africa, 18th March 2009
- Invited speaker on 'Tourism and the UN Millennium Development Goals' at the Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre, University of Nottingham, 15th October 2008.
- Invited speaker on Niche tourism Development and Management at the University of Limerick, Ireland, March 2008.
- Keynote speaker, Can Clusters be issued by governments ? A European comparison, 18 Jan 2008. CRIFP workshop, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Invited speaker at the University of Bari on Tourism Development Issues (yearly since 2000)
- Invited speaker at the MIB School of Management Trieste on Niche Tourism Development and Trends (yearly since 1999)
- Journal of Tourism and Hospitality: Planning & Development
- Journal of Global Business and Technology
- Alma tourism - Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development (on-line)
- Documenti Geografici, Rivista dell'Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Annals of Tourism Research; Journal of Tourism Management; Current Issues in Tourism (Journal); Leisure Studies (Journal); Tourism Planning and Development (formerly Tourism and Hospitality: Planning and Development); Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research; International Journal of Tourism Research; Society & Natural Resources (Journal); Conservation and Society (Journal); New Political Economy (Journal); Tourism Geographies (Journal); Elsevier and Routledge (Book proposals)
Spring 2008: Andrea Giampicoli, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Thesis title: Globalisation, development and community-based tourism in developing countries: a case study of Pondoland, Eastern Cape
March 2006: Carlo Perelli, Universita Ca'foscai Venezia, Universita IUAV di Venezia, Fondazione Scuola Studi avanzati en Venezia, Italy.
Thesis title: Mass tourism coastal destinations and the challenge of sustainability: Critical issues and best practices in the High Adriatic Sea
- Organizing Committee (2012) Enlightening Tourism - Competition and Innovation in Tourism: New Challenges in an Uncertain Environment, 13-14 September, Naples, Italy
- Scientific committee member (2011) International Tourism Sustainability Conference, 21-24 September, Mauritius.
- Scientific committee member (2011), Tourism and Peace, Jordan - postponed.
- Scientific committee member (2011), Niche Tourism, April 2011, Nepal.
- International Scientific committee member, Mass tourism vs Niche tourism. ATLAS Annual Conference and PhD Colloquium 2010, 3-5 November 2010, Limassol, Cyprus
- Board member, ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education)
- Scientific committee member, ATLAS Annual Conference 2008: Selling or Telling - Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2-4 July 2008. Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton
- Scientific committee member, Imagine There's no Countries: Inequality and Growth in the Age of Tourism, 22-23 June 2006, Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS), University of Brighton
- Scientific committee member, Local Frameworks and Global Realities? Tourism, Politics and Democracy, 9-10 September 2004, Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS), University of Brighton
- Scientific committee member, Tourism and the Natural Environment, 23-25 October 2002, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne
Commonwealth Secretariat
2012-2013
Customer Services Skills Training Programme for Namibia’s Tourism Industry. Including a train the trainers programme in 3 destinations in Namibia and collaborative work with the Namibia Tourism Board.
Ministry of Tourism and Culture (Gambia - MTOC)
2012
Facilitation of a participatory workshop on Sectors’ Service Standards involving some 67 destination’s stakeholders (i.e. Hotels’ General Managers, MTOC, Gambia Tourism Board, Tourism Security Unit, Immigration, Ground Operators) and drafting of a set of Service Standard Criteria to become the National Tourism and Hospitality Service Standard.
Aga Khan University (Nairobi, Kenya)
2012
Study identifying and assessing PG and Research Programmes in Sub-Sahara Africa (with Burns, P.) ($7,500 bursary).
Aga Khan University (Nairobi, Kenya)
2011
Study identifying and assessing key knowledge and skill gaps in the tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors in the developing world (with Burns, P.)
World Bank
2011
Restructuring The Gambia Hotel School into a National Tourism Training Institute – Business Plan.
2010
Review of Swaziland Tourism Sector and completion of a Tourism Policy Note.
2009
Restructuring The Gambia Hotel School into a National Tourism Training Institute, became Bill in December 2011.
UNIDO
2010
COAST Pan-African Projects (Nigeria) – Ecotourism and Environmental Management Training Need Analysis for Badagry, Lagos State.
2010
COAST Pan-African Projects (The Gambia) – Ecotourism and Environmental Management Training Need Analysis.
UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
2009
Short Course Development in Tourism and International Cooperation for Development.
UNESCO
2009
Revitalization of the Nigerian Technical Vocational Education Curricula on Tourism Leisure and Hospitality. Project in collaboration with the Nigerian Board of Technical Education.
2004
Training Needs Analysis for the Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Sectors. Project in collaboration with the Nigerian Board of Technical Education.
EU
2008
EU Asia-Invest, 'Asian Tour-Capacity Building Training provision', Kathmandu, Nepal 22-26 September. This project was aimed at skills assessment, training and knowledge development of a group of 40 professionals in the field of niche tourism development in Nepal, Vietnam and Mongolia (with ecotourism being part of the overall tourism portfolio).
2008
EU Asia-Invest 'Asian-Tour: Study of tourism state of the art in the Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam'.
South East Development Agency (SEEDA)
2003-2004
'Healthy Lifestyle Tourism Phase I' for the establishment of a tourism cluster based in East Sussex.
2004-2005
'Healthy Lifestyle Tourism Phase II' to enable policy implementation and marketing activities related to the formed tourism cluster.
Ministry of Environment (Italy)
2004-2005
"Progetto Parchi" aimed at the realisation of a monograph on the Gargano National Park (with Novelli G.).
Ministry of University (Italy)
2005-2007
PRIN Turismo "Tourism Development and territorial changes. Urban Areas, ecosystems and regional challenges" collaborative research with the Geography Department/University of Catania and the Department of Geographical Science/University of Bari, Italy.
2002-2004
"Tourism and Economic Growth: Local Factors and Territorial Competitiveness" collaborative research with the University La Sapienza of Rome and the Department of Geographical Science/University of Bari, Italy.
Other projects
2009
Burundi – Opportunity Study for Tourism Development in Burundi aimed at the assessments of current and future tourism, leisure and hospitality potential product and the required institutional framework for the realization of a priority list for action to enable the development of public-private collaboration and the identification and implementation of a sustainable tourism strategy. This project was concluded with a stakeholder workshop.
2007
Gambia (yearly since) – University of Brighton/Centre for Responsible Tourism – West Africa: Destination Niche Tourism: trends and Development, 1 week intensive capacity building course on niche tourism product development, which involves 20 undergraduate students from the University of Brighton and 10 sponsored professionals from various Gambian private and public tourism businesses and organizations. This is a yearly event aimed at addressing the lack of skills in business planning and tourism product development, the identification and development of sustainable tourism practices and the diversification of the Gambian mass tourism product.
2007
University of Brighton Teaching and Learning Fellowship Award: "Capacity building, cross-cultural collaboration and sustainable (tourism) development in the Gambia." Project aimed at an inventory of the existing and required training needs in the locality and the assessment of tourism product opportunities in collaboration with professionals and members of the Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism (ASSET) of The Gambia.
2006
Namibia – NACOBTA: Community Based Tourism Product Development and Capacity Building in the Kunene region aimed at a sustainable integration of Ovahimba communities in the tourism sector.
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Tourism & Protected Areas Specialist – Member.
- Pathway Foundation, The Gambia – Member of the Board of Trusties.
- Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) - Elected Member to the Executive Board for ATLAS Europe.
- Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) - Elected Member to the Executive Board for ATLAS Africa.
- Royal Geographical Society – Fellow.
- Development Studies Association – Member.
- Tourism Concern - Member.
- Learning & Teaching Fellowship 2007/08, University of Brighton
Research Publications
Number of items: 33.
NOVELLI, MARINA, Morgan, N. and Nibigara, C. (2012) Tourism in a post-conflict situation of fragility Annals of Tourism Research, 39 (3). pp. 1446-1469. ISSN 0160-7383
Novelli, M. and Tisch-Rottensteiner , A. (2011) Authenticity vs Development - Tourism to the hill tribes of Thailand In: Moukaffir, O. and Burns, P.M., eds. Controversies in Tourism. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. ISBN 978-1845938130
Novelli, M. and Burns, P.M. (2011) Restructuring the Gambia Hotel School into a National Training Institute Project Report – Business Plan Gambia Ministry of Tourism and Culture/World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA .
Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M. (2011) Study identifying and assessing key knowledge and skill gaps in the tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors in the developing world Aga Kahn University, Nairobi, Kenya.
NOVELLI, MARINA and Hellwig, A. (2011) The UN Millennium Development Goals, tourism and development: the tour operators' perspective Current Issues In Tourism, 14 (3). pp. 205-220. ISSN 1368-3500
Holden, A. and NOVELLI, MARINA (2011) Guest editorial: The changing paradigms of tourism in international development: placing the poor first — trojan horse or real hope? Tourism Planning and Development, 8 (3). pp. 233-235. ISSN 2156-8316
Holden, A., Sonne, J. and NOVELLI, MARINA (2011) Tourism and poverty reduction: an interpretation by the poor of Elmina, Ghana Tourism Planning and Development, 8 (3). pp. 317-334. ISSN 2156-8316
NOVELLI, MARINA and BURNS, PETER (2010) Peer-to-peer capacity-building in tourism: Values and experiences of field-based education Development Southern Africa, 27 (5). ISSN 0376-835X
Novelli, M. (2010) Gambia - Training Needs Analysis for Ecotourism and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Development UNIDO, Vienna, Austria.
Novelli, M. (2010) Nigeria - Training Needs Analysis for Ecotourism and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Development UNIDO, Vienna, Austria. (In Press)
Novelli, M. (2010) Swaziland's Tourism - Policy Note World Bank , Washington, D.C., USA.
Novelli, M. (2009) Restructuring the Gambia Hotel School into a National Training Institute World Bank / GIPFZA, Washington, D.C., USA.
Burns, P.M. and O'Regan, M (2008) Everyday techno-social devices in everyday travel life: digital audio devices in solo travelling lifestyles In: Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M., eds. Tourism and mobilities: local-global connections. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, pp. 146-186. ISBN 9781845934040
Burns, P. and Novelli, M., eds. (2008) Tourism and mobilities: local-global connections CABI, Wallingford, UK. ISBN 9781845934040
Burns, P. and Novelli, M., eds. (2008) Tourism development: growth, myths and inequalities CABI, Wallingford, UK. ISBN 9781845934255
Barnes, J. and Novelli, M. (2008) Trophy hunting and recreational angling in Namibia: an economic, social and environmental comparison In: Lovelock, B., ed. Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife: Hunting, Shooting and Sport Fishing. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 155-168. ISBN 0415-403-812
Novelli, M. and Gebhardt, K. (2007) Community Based Tourism in Namibia: 'Reality Show' or Window Dressing? Current Issues in Tourism, 10 (5). pp. 443-479. ISSN 1368 3500
Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M., eds. (2007) Tourism and Politics: Global Frameworks and Local Realities Elsevier Advances in Tourism Research series . Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-08-045075-X
Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M. (2007) Tourism and Politics: Introduction In: Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M., eds. Tourism and Politics: Global Frameworks and Local Realities. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-4. ISBN 008045075X
Novelli, M. and Scarth, A. (2007) Tourism in protected areas: integrating conservation and community development in Liwonde National Park (Malawi) Tourism and Hospitality: Planning & Development, 4 (1). pp. 47-73. ISSN 1479 053X
Novelli, M. (2006) Literature Review for Hospitality, Tourism and Lifestyle Concept: Implication for Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction, Thyne, M. and Laws, E. (eds.) Tourism Geographies, 8 (4). pp. 429-430. ISSN 1461-6688
Novelli, M., Schmitz, B. and Spencer, T. (2006) Networks, Clusters and Innovation in tourism: a UK Experience Tourism Management, 27 (6). pp. 1141-1152. ISSN 0261 5177
Novelli, M., Barnes, J. and Humavindu, M. (2006) The other side of the ecotourism coin: consumptive tourism in Southern Africa Journal of Ecotourism, 5 (1-2). pp. 62-79. ISSN 1472-4049
Novelli, G. and Novelli, M. (2006) Parco Nazionale del Gargano Ministerio dell'ambiente e delle tutele del territorio / Societa Geografica Italiane, Rome, Italy.
Burns, Peter and Novelli, Marina, eds. (2006) Tourism and social identities: global frameworks and local realities Elsevier Advances in Tourism series . Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0080450741
Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M. (2006) Tourism and Social Identities: Introduction In: Burns, P.M. and Novelli, M., eds. Tourism and Social Identities: Global Frameworks and Local Realities. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-11. ISBN 0-08-045074-1
Novelli, M. and Benson, A.M. (2005) Niche tourism: a way forward to sustainability In: Novelli, M., ed. Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 247-250. ISBN 075066133X
Novelli, M. and Humavindu, M. (2005) Wildlife tourism - wildlife use vs local gain: trophy hunting in Namibia In: Novelli, M., ed. Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 171-182. ISBN 075066133X
Robinson, M. and Novelli, M. (2005) Niche Tourism: An introduction In: Novelli, M., ed. Niche Tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 0-7506-6133-X
Novelli, M., ed. (2005) Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK. ISBN 075066133X
Novelli, M. (2005) Il Parco Nazionale del Gargano: turismo, ieri, oggi e domiani In: Mininno, A., ed. Sviluppo regionale e turismo in Puglia. Un'esprorazione di opportunita, Bari, Italy, pp. 77-107. ISBN 88-8459-045-0
Novelli, M., Grumo, R., Mininno, A. and Giorgio, G. (2004) Turismo e sviluppo regionale: individuazione delle risorse e valutazione delle strategie per la competitivita della Puglia sul mercato nazionale ed internazionale In: Turismo e crescita produttiva: fattori locali e competitività del territorio. Programma di ricerca cofinanziamento MIUR 2002, rapporto finale. MIUR, Rome, Italy, pp. 186-207.
Novelli, M. (2003) Wine tourism events in the region of Apulia, Italy In: Yeoman, Ian, ed. Festival and event management: an international arts and culture perspective. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 329-345. ISBN 075065872X
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