Tourism Development

Professor Marina Novelli (PhD) is a globally renowned tourism for sustainable development expert and Professor of Marketing and Tourism at The University of Nottingham Business School (UK). She is known for her contributions to the concept of Niche Tourism, the study of Tourism Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and new critical elaboration of the Overtourism phenomenon. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, Alternate Member of the UNWTO World Committee on Tourism Ethics (2021-2025) and Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Sustainable Development (2023-2024). She has written and advised in the field of international tourism policy, planning and development in Africa, Europe and Asia for institutions such as the World Bank, the EU, the UN, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, National Ministries and Tourism Boards, Regional Development Agencies, private sector and NGOs. She distinguishes herself as a particularly active member of the global tourism community and for her inclusive research leadership practice and excellence in collaborating with multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholders and multi-cultural teams. Dr. Omar Moufakkir is a professor, MA programs course leader at Stenden University in the Netherlands, and the editor of 'The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research'. His current research focuses on tourism and peace and the effects of immigration on destination image and travel propensity. is a senior lecturer in Tourism Geography at the University of the West of England. Stroma combines her academic career with action research and consultancy, most recently looking at tourism and water rights in Indonesia. She is a director of Equality in Tourism and was the Chair of Tourism Concern (2006-2012). Stroma is an activist researcher critiquing the consequences of tourism development.

• 1: The ST-EP program and LDCs: Is tourism the best alternative? 2: The myth of agency through community participation in ecotourism 3: Is tourism fair? What the figures do not tell 4: Western money for southern sympathy: How Tuareg from Timia are instrumentalising tourists to support their 'exotic' village 5: The influence of religion on global and local conflict in tourism: Case studies in muslim countries 6: 'Riding' diversity: Cuban's / jineteros' uses of 'nationality talks' in the realm of their informal encounters with tourists 7: Destination image revisited: The Dutch market perceptions of Morocco as a tourism destination 8: The demand of rural tourism in a natural park in southern Spain 9: Making the set: Politics of transformation and narratives of preservation in Botiza (Romania) 10: 'From the inside to the inside': A new development model in tourism environments 11: Global tourism and urban poor's right to the city: Spatial contestation within Cairo's historical districts 12: Kerala's strategy for tourism growth: A southern approach to development and poverty alleviation 13: Tourism and Kudumbashree: a southern solution empowering women through tourism 14: Tourism, gender and development in the third world: A case study from Northern Laos 15: Rural tourism in the context of Ejidos and community development in Mexico 16: Living in hope: Tourism and poverty alleviation in Flores

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