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Dr. Marina Novelli

Principal Lecturer.
Coordinator, Sustainable Tourism in Local Economies (STILE)

Invited talks and keynote addresses

  • 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)

Member of editorial boards

  • 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.

Manuscript peer reviewer for

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)

External PhD examination

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

Service on national and international bodies, committees and conferences

  • 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

Consultancy and participation in the development of national and international policy and practice

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.

Affiliations

  • 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.

Awards

  • Learning & Teaching Fellowship 2007/08, University of Brighton

Media Contribution

  • 2011 Travel Talk and Business Travel Radio Programme, Interview on 'Teaching Tourism in HE' - segment 2 - and on 'Tourism and Peace' - segment 5-6 (30th Jan) http://www.traveltalkmedia.com/archives_jan30_11.html#005
  • 2010 West Coast Radio, The Gambia, Interview on 'Tourism and the environment' (1st Dec).
  • 2009 Cervia Vision 2028 – Forum sul Turismo, Interview on 'Qualita' e Customer Experience' (21st August) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XbF93GnD9g