Tourism and Mobilities

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.

• 1: The end of tourism, or endings in tourism 2: Of Time and Space and Other things: Laws of Tourism and the Geographies of Contemporary Mobilities 3: Glocal Heterotopias: Neo-Flaneur’s Transit Narratives 4: Telling Tales of Tourism: Mobility, Media and Citizenship in the 2004 EU Enlargement 5: ""Claim you are from Canada, eh"": Travelling citizenship within global space 6: International Student Mobility: Cross-cultural learning from international internships 7: Hypermobility in backpacker lifestyles: the emergence of the Internet café 8: Entering the global margin: Setting the ‘other’ scene in independent travel 9: Everyday techno-social devices in everyday travel life: digital audio devices in solo travelling lifestyles 10: Environmental discourses in the aviation industry: the reproduction of mobility 11: Political instability, trans-national tourist companies and destination recovery in the Middle East after 9/11 12: Business relations in the design of package tours in a changing environment: the case of tourism from Germany to Jordan