Outputs (6)

The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System (2025)
Book
Scarth, A., & Novelli, M. (2025). The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003497929

This timely and thought-provoking book critically explores key theories, concepts and contemporary issues associated with the travel philanthropy phenomenon and within the debates of sustainable development in Africa. Since the Band Aid era in 1984,... Read More about The Business of Poverty in Africa: Inside the Travel Philanthropy System.

The Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Festivals: A Global South Residents' Perspectives (2025)
Journal Article
Aleshinloye, K. D., Novelli, M., Omitola, A. A., Kaufman, E. B., & Tkatch, J. R. V. (2025). The Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Festivals: A Global South Residents' Perspectives. Event Management, https://doi.org/10.3727/152599525X17385344274531

The globalization of indigenous cultural festivals has increasingly been affecting the way Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is portrayed and utilized as tourism products due to the deconstruction and reconstruction of cultural meanings and producti... Read More about The Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Festivals: A Global South Residents' Perspectives.

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'.