All Outputs (5)

Accelerating Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Tourism in Africa Through Co-Created Youth-Centered Innovation Ecosystem (2025)
Book Chapter
Sifolo, P. P. S., Chiawo, D., Novelli, M., Mensah, K., Kepher-Gona, J., Odhiambo, J., Tsekouras, G., Figlioli, A., Adidwa, D., Muigai, S., & Mburu, F. (2025). Accelerating Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Tourism in Africa Through Co-Created Youth-Centered Innovation Ecosystem. In Strengthening University Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa (95-129). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819800520_0004

The tourism industry is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy and is expected to grow by 4.2 percent per annum to US$278 billion by 2028, creating over 235 million jobs globally. In Africa, tourism export revenues have risen th... Read More about Accelerating Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Tourism in Africa Through Co-Created Youth-Centered Innovation Ecosystem.

Twenty years of Tourism Planning and Development: Looking back to look forward (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, S. (., Akwasi Adu-Ampong, E. A., & Novelli, M. (2024). Twenty years of Tourism Planning and Development: Looking back to look forward. Tourism Planning and Development, 21(6), 641-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2024.2426945

Tourism Planning and Development (TPD) is a leading journal in the fields of 'Development', 'Business and International Management' and 'Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management'. In 2023, TPD obtained its first journal impact factor (JIF) of 2.4... Read More about Twenty years of Tourism Planning and Development: Looking back to look forward.

Contemporary arts and indigenous arts-based tourism in West Africa (2024)
Book Chapter
Allanso, C., & Novelli, M. (2025). Contemporary arts and indigenous arts-based tourism in West Africa. In R. Butler, & A. Carr (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (381-394). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230335-34

Contemporary arts in West Africa are becoming increasingly dynamic, challenging the perceptions previously imposed by colonialism on what constitutes or should be regarded as art, culture, heritage, creativity, etc. The emerging discourse uses local... Read More about Contemporary arts and indigenous arts-based tourism in West Africa.

Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism (2024)
Journal Article
Milano, C., Novelli, M., & Russo, A. P. (2024). Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism. Tourism Geographies, 26(8), 1313-1337. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388

Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, w... Read More about Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism.

Travel philanthropy: A multifaceted 'exchange economy' (2024)
Journal Article
Scarth, A., & Novelli, M. (2024). Travel philanthropy: A multifaceted 'exchange economy'. Annals of Tourism Research, 106, Article 103750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103750

Travelling with a purpose and ‘helping’ the ‘suffering’ is a growing practice within the important, but under-researched travel philanthropy phenomenon. Systems theory and critical realism informed this qualitative study exploring multiple travel phi... Read More about Travel philanthropy: A multifaceted 'exchange economy'.