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Sustainability Leader for Tourism Development in Africa and Beyond

Africa Tourism Leadership Forum - Special Award for “Contribution to Sustainable Tourism in Africa

University of Brighton Excellence in Community Engagement Award

Member, West Africa Tourism Organisation

Member, Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Ghana and Ghana Tourism Authority

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Member, National Tourism Board of Sierra Leone

Member, Gambia Tourism and Hospitality Institute

Power in community-based tourism: empowerment and partnership in Bali

Overtourism and degrowth: a social movements perspective

Overtourism and tourismphobia: A journey through four decades of tourism development, planning and local concerns

Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism

Overtourism: A Critical State of the Art

Professor Marina Novelli is Professor of Tourism and International Development in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton. She is committed to generating new knowledge on ways in which tourism can play a key role in sustainable development by stimulating local economies, conserving the environment, developing people and changing lives. Her work has demonstrated to have impact far beyond tourism by contributing to more effective economic growth, improved environments and more inclusive societies. She is the recipient of a special “Africa Tourism Leadership Award” in recognition of her contribution to sustainable tourism development in Africa.

With a background in economics, Marina has written and advised extensively in the field of international tourism policy, planning, development and management in Africa, Europe and Asia, for institutions such as the World Bank, the EU, UNESCO, UNIDO, the UNWTO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, National Ministries and Tourism Boards, Regional Development Agencies and NGOs. Her areas of expertise include: diagnostic, monitoring and evaluation studies; sustainable development; value chain diversification; community-based development; training needs analysis, workforce capacity building, train-the trainers programmes and curriculum development; governance and institutional development; service standards and optimisation in tourism and hospitality.

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Travel with a vengeance after Covid-19

Airbnb kicks off host registration roadshow in UK cities

Want to See the Mona Lisa? Get in Line

Top Tourism Spots Crack Down as They Become Victim of Own Success

Global tourism hits record highs - but who goes where on holiday?

Professor of Tourism and International Development

Professor Marina Novelli, Professor of Tourism and International Development and academic lead of the Responsible Futures agenda, answers your questions on holidays and international travel during Covid-19 and predicts what the tourism could look like in the coming years.

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Holidays, travel and Covid: Professor Marina Novelli | University of Brighton podcast

Marina Novelli, Professor of Tourism and International Development, presented her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 29 March 2017 entitled Travel and Tourism in the Age of Sustainability.

Travel and Tourism in the Age of Sustainability

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis Tourism and COVID - Greek Presentation

Tο αύριο του τουρισμού - Webinar από το Παρατηρητήριο Βιώσιμου Τουρισμού Aιγαίου
Πέμπτη 14 May 2020  https://youtu.be/SGbLVf4rwzo


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Buhalis, D. (2020), Technology in tourism-from information communication technologies to eTourism and smart tourism towards ambient intelligence tourism, Tourism Review 75(1), 267-272 https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-06-2019-0258


Buhalis D, Andreu L, Gnoth J., 2020, The dark side of the sharing economy: Balancing value co‐creation and value co‐destruction. Psychology and Marketing. pp.1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21344 or https://www.academia.edu/42133651


Buhalis, D., Sinarta, Y., 2019, Real-time co-creation and nowness service: lessons from tourism and hospitality, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 36(5), 563-582 https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2019.1592059  https://www.academia.edu/38606553/ 


Buhalis, D., Harwood, T., Bogicevic, V., Viglia, G., Beldona, S., Hofacker, C., 2019, Technological disruptions in Services: lessons from Tourism and Hospitality, Journal of Service Management, 30(40), 484-506 https://www.academia.edu/40577837/


Fan, D., Buhalis, D., Lin, B., 2019, A tourist typology of online and face-to-face social contact: Destination immersion and tourism encapsulation/decapsulation, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol.78,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102757


Kozak, M., & Buhalis, D., 2019, Cross–border tourism destination marketing: Prerequisites and critical success factors. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, Vol.14, 1-9.  https://www.academia.edu/40913940 


Buhalis, D., & Leung, R. 2018. Smart hospitality—Interconnectivity and interoperability towards an ecosystem. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 71, 41-50. https://tinyurl.com/BuhalisSmartHospitality 


Mistilis, N., and Buhalis, D., Gretzel, U., 2014, eDestination Marketing of the future: the perspective of an Australian Tourism Stakeholder Network, Journal Travel Research, 53, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287514522874


Paraskevas., A., Katsogridakis, I., Law, R., and Buhalis, D., 2011, Search Engine Marketing: Transforming Search Engines to Hotel Distribution Channels, The Cornell Hotel Restaurant Administration Quarterly, 52(2), 200-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1938965510395016


Qi, S., Law, R. and Buhalis, D., 2008, Usability of Chinese Destination Management Organization Websites, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 25(2),182-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/10548400802402933


Buhalis, D., and Deimezi R., 2004, eTourism developments in Greece, International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 5(2), 103-130. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.thr.6040011


Bastakis, C., Buhalis, D., and Butler, R., 2004, The perception of small and medium sized tourism accommodation providers on the impacts of the tour operators’ power in Eastern Mediterranean, Tourism Management, 25(2),151-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0261-5177(03)00098-0


Buhalis, D., and Deimezi R., 2003, Information Technology penetration and eCommerce developments in Greece, Electronic Markets, 13(4),309-324. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1019678032000135563


Buhalis, D., 2001, Tourism in Greece: Strategic Analysis and Challenges, Current Issues in Tourism, 4(5), 440-480  https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500108667898


Buhalis, D., 1999, Tourism in the Greek Islands: The issues of peripherality, competitiveness and development, International Journal of Tourism Research, 1(5), 341-359. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1522-1970(199909/10)1:5%3C341::AID-JTR201%3E3.0.CO;2-0


Buhalis, D., 1993, Regional Integrated Computer Information Reservation Management Systems (RICIRMS) as a strategic tool for the small and medium tourism enterprises, Tourism Management, 14(5), 366 378. https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-5177(93)90005-6

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis Tourism and COVID - Greek Presentation

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