Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability203
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities156
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach139
Videography-facilitated nature-based mindfulness at natural destinations118
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience92
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations89
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective85
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality84
Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective82
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector76
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective71
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations70
Correction66
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry66
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence61
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda60
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations57
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China52
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship51
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities51
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents51
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations49
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate49
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management46
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset45
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices45
Building sustainable tourism communities: a blueprint for the future43
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?39
Promoting sustainability in hotels: do guests commit and save water?38
From “Sacred Spaces” to “Selfie Spots”: how social media sharing motivations transform tourist-destination relationships37
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era37
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government34
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications34
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays33
Visualizing sustainability: how landscape diversity shapes crowding tolerance on urban aerial trails33
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination 33
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel32
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games32
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice31
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region31
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach31
Being a champion for sustainability: enhancing organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment through positive group perception in the hotel industry30
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism30
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms30
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence29
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals29
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism29
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest29
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency28
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study27
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?27
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis27
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste27
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators27
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country26
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding26
Beyond economic benefits: an integrated model of how and when destination social responsibility drives residents’ brand-building behaviors26
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry26
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels26
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance26
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?25
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?25
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles25
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia25
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food25
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?24
From pity to allyship: reimagining inclusive tourism through blind-led sensory experiences24
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review24
From intention to action: a longitudinal study of pro-environmental behavior change through nature-based sporting events24
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism23
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation23
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice22
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy22
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma22
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador22
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?21
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality21
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior20
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices20
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events20
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal20
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers20
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism20
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being20
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints19
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice19
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis19
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry19
Grounding through objects: how phygital visitations shape visitor response19
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city19
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism19
Air travel and persuasive climate communications19
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark19
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective19
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective19
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities18
High-resolution mapping of tourism carbon footprint and its driving factors18
Strategic responses to sustainability certification under regulatory uncertainty: a real-options perspective18
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network17
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty17
Do not touch: understanding travelers’ implicit attitudes toward close wildlife interactions and the power of animal-welfare warning messages17
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective17
Snowmaking in Austria: resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions17
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings17
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development17
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics17
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface16
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews16
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts16
Will tourists avoid visiting destinations with heritage destruction?16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain16
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers16
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?16
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories16
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals16
Beyond green promises: sustainability and the limits of employer attraction for Gen Z in tourism and hospitality16
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction16
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas16
Indigenous knowledge systems and socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development: insights from Indigenous Newars of Nepal15
“She” power: role transition and self-empowerment of women in rural tourism15
Co-creating the European Transition Pathway for Tourism: a transition management approach through participatory backcasting15
A framework for gender influences on sustainable business models in women’s tourism entrepreneurship: doing and re-doing gender15
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals15
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers15
A study of how LGBTQ tourists’ perceptions of residents’ feelings about them affect their revisit intentions: an emotional solidarity perspective14
Is Gen Z really that different? Environmental attitudes, travel behaviours and sustainability practices of international tourists to Canterbury, New Zealand14
Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’ : workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations14
Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males14
Problematising inclusivity in regenerative tourism planning13
Correction13
Ecofeminism and food activism in transformative travel as a tool for change13
Are Chinese willing to pay for travel carbon offset products?13
Towards the search for a sustainable destination: a gender perspective13
Gender dynamics and sustainable practices: exploring food waste management among female chefs in the hospitality industry13
Exploring the gendered tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem in Barcelona and responses required: a feminist ethic of care13
Exploring the pro-environmental behavioral intention of Generation Z in the tourism context: the role of injunctive social norms and personal norms13
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?13
Measurement validation of a consumer-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index for the airline industry13
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing12
Beyond borders: can culturally intelligent leaders make better CSR calls12
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China12
Inspiration and pro-environmental behaviour in virtual nature-based tourism12
Can sustainable tourism and hospitality consumption value enhance customers’ psychological responses? The moderating roles of collectivism and religiosity12
Correction12
How does minimalist lifestyle drive sustainable tourism consumption? The role of egoistic motivation12
Case based research in tourism, travel, and hospitality: rethinking theory and practice12
Livability and resident attitudes towards tourism12
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism11
Correction11
A theory of change approach to analysing tourism social entrepreneurship research11
The carbon footprint of Antarctic tourism: an update of carbon emissions based on satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data11
How and when to activate hospitality employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment in South Korea and Vietnam11
Factors affecting food waste at food festivals: the moderating effect of “Camera Eats First”11
Climate change and tourism in South and Central America11
Intermediary organizations as supporters of residents’ innovativeness and empowerment in community-based tourism11
The influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism11
Whose real behavior counts? Rethinking behavioral realism in sustainable tourism research – a commentary on Viglia et al. (2024)11
The effect of elevation on tourists’ perceived co-created value: a food waste reduction perspective11
A multidimensional perspective on the relationship between tourism and green growth11
Exploring the drivers of Gen Z tourists’ buycott behaviour: a lifestyle politics perspective11
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: the relationships of meaningfulness and emotions in protected areas11
Overconsumption and tourist ideology: how and why the Protestant Work Ethic moderates the effect of spending on consumption quantity under flat-rate pricing11
Destinations’ environmental orientation: a symbolic cluster analysis based on hotel employees’ environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern11
Night lights versus conservation dreams: balancing human preferences with conservation goals in protected areas for sustainable nature-based noctourism11
Meta-analysis of the climate change-tourism demand relationship11
The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations11
Tourism and the climate crisis11
Short-term emission reductions in leisure and business air travel: assessment of taxation, regulations, sustainable aviation fuels and personal intentions10
When cultures collide: the double-edged effect of cultural mixing on tourist preference10
Rural tourism and evolving identities of Chinese communities in forested areas10
Internal corporate social responsibility and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating roles of job satisfaction, work-family facilitation, life satisfaction, and the modera10
Hotel performance under extreme weather: a contingency perspective on organizational resilience10
Is snowmaking climate change maladaptation?10
Bridging sustainable and regenerative tourism through a place-based approach10
The effects of resident-tourist interaction quality on residents’ pro-environmental behaviour through improved relationships: a combination of symmetric and asymmetric analysis10
Co-learning through participatory evaluation: an example using Theory of Change in a large-scale EU-funded tourism intervention10
Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism10
Advancing understanding of unionization in the hospitality industry: the role of attitudes toward unions and social justice10
Ritualized host-tourist interaction and storytelling intentions: the roles of sense of belonging and group size10
Women entrepreneurs in tourism in a time of a life event crisis9
The Dolphins: poetry in studying ethical tourism and sustainability9
Regenerating tourism and regenerating people: how tourism is achieving justice for Indigenous youths9
From agility to action: how AI chatbot promotes green customer citizenship behavior9
Integrating tourists’ walk and talk: a methodological approach for tracking and analysing tourists’ real behaviours for more sustainable destinations9
Environmental policies as engines for tourism eco-efficiency: quasi-experimental evidence9
Tourist prosocial behavior: scale development and its role between tourist destination social exclusion and wellbeing9
Assessing tourism compliance challenges at one of the largest whale shark aggregation sites in the world9
Generation Z diners’ moral judgements of restaurant food waste in the United States: a qualitative inquiry9
Who pays for affordable tourism? Tourism’s hidden labor subsidy in times of crisis9
The awe-habitual model: exploring tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in religious settings9
The effect of heritage tourism interpretation media type on tourists’ eWOM: the moderating role of travel group size9
Impact evaluation with process tracing: explaining causal processes in an EU-interreg sustainable tourism intervention9
Destination smartness revisited: sustainability’s influence and the new Destination Smartness Scale (DSS)9
A novel measure indicating that a management strategy reduces the likelihood of human-made threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites9
Correction9
Rethinking evaluation in European Union-funded tourism projects: towards a practical protocol for maximising impact9
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism8
An evidence-base for reducing the CO 2 emissions of national mega sports events: application of the three-hub model to the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup8
Gen Z, tourism, and sustainable consumption, the most sustainable generation ever? A Book Review8
An animal welfare syllabus for wildlife tourism8
The influence of allocentrism on residents’ sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in collectivist rural tourism destinations – a perspective from face and guanxi8
Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change8
The role of longitudinal ethnography in understanding tourism’s (un)intended implications: storying contradiction and ambivalence in Cappadocia, Turkey8
Flipping the script: how awareness of positive consequences outweigh negative in encouraging tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior?8
Sustainable cross-border tourism management: COVID-19 avoidance motive on resident hospitality8
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: a gendered perspective8
How can restaurants entice patrons to order environmentally sustainable dishes? Testing new approaches based on hedonic psychology and affective forecasting theory8
Tourism and climate change in Africa: informing sector responses8
Using study abroad memories to foster sustainable tourists and global citizens8
A visual autoethnographic study on gendered livelihoods in tourism8
Why Flying Less remains difficult: a theory of practice perspective on transdisciplinary climate and susta8
Timing nature’s call: how circadian rhythms affect tourists’ pro-environmental intention8
A pragmatic approach to understanding sustainability strategies of small, private museums: accidental ethnography through critical realism7
Do we have to know the hen that lays the eggs? How the disclosure timing of robot chef identity affects consumer perceived ethicality7
Residents’ attitudes toward land lease for rural tourism7
Firms’ green knowledge sharing and tourists’ green electronic word-of-mouth intention: a two-wave time-lagged study of moderated mediation model7
Unravelling green innovative behavior in pilgrimage tourism: the role of learning climate and green self-efficacy7
Rethinking tourism’s definition, scope and future of sustainable work and employment: editorial for the Journal of Sustainable Tourism special issue on “locating workforce at the heart of susta7
Rural resiliency through peer-to-peer accommodations7
Correction7
Green behavior at work of hospitality and tourism employees: evidence from IGSCA-SEM and fsQCA7
A participatory waste policy reform for the hotel sector: evidence of a progressive Pay-As-You-Throw tariff7
Reimagining children’s participation: a child rights informed approach to social justice in tourism7
Measuring sustainable tourism: a state of the art review of sustainable tourism indicators7
Fostering green customer citizenship behavioral intentions through green hotel practices: the roles of pride, moral elevation, and hotel star ratings7
Hotels’ green leadership and employee pro-environmental behaviour, the role of value congruence and moral consciousness: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches7
Growing threat of marine tourism activities to whales: evidence from vessel trajectory big data mining7
Animal ethnography and a relational approach to sustainability: methodological challenges and opportunities in wildlife tourism7
The dark side of mobile payments: the effect of mobile payments on tourists’ donation intentions in religious tourism7
Sustainability Sham7
(Don’t) be ashamed during take-off and landing: negotiations of flight shame in the Norwegian public debate7
Cause-related marketing in tourism: how goal framing promotes consumer prosocial behaviours7
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