Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities212
Videography-facilitated nature-based mindfulness at natural destinations179
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience153
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability131
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations113
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach97
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective96
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality93
Correction91
Smart-metre insights into ecolodge guests’ water and energy behaviours in a field quasi-experiment80
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector79
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations79
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry76
Enhancing inclusive tourism through multisensory experiences: soundwalk programs for people with visual impairments70
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence68
Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective67
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations62
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective59
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda57
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate55
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?54
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China54
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management49
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship49
Building sustainable tourism communities: a blueprint for the future46
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset46
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities44
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices42
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations40
Tourist ritual engagement and environmentally responsible behavior: the interaction of ritual type and engagement type40
Promoting sustainability in hotels: do guests commit and save water?39
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents39
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays38
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era38
From “Sacred Spaces” to “Selfie Spots”: how social media sharing motivations transform tourist-destination relationships38
How does travel pace shape pro-environmental behavior? A conservation of resources perspective37
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government37
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications36
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination 35
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals35
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms34
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games34
Being a champion for sustainability: enhancing organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment through positive group perception in the hotel industry34
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism33
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence33
Does climate-proofing a city boost its tourism? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China33
Ethnography as a backdoor to critical tourism studies: insights from an ethnobiology study of Indigenous-bird relations in the Altiplano region of Perú and Bolivia32
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region31
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel31
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency30
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?30
Visualizing sustainability: how landscape diversity shapes crowding tolerance on urban aerial trails29
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism29
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding29
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach29
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice29
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest29
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste29
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels28
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study28
Beyond economic benefits: an integrated model of how and when destination social responsibility drives residents’ brand-building behaviors28
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 Country27
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry27
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance27
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia27
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food27
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis27
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles26
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?26
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism25
From intention to action: a longitudinal study of pro-environmental behavior change through nature-based sporting events25
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality25
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador25
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being24
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?23
Sectoral effect of ESG on financial performance: evidence from global hotel real estate investment trusts23
From pity to allyship: reimagining inclusive tourism through blind-led sensory experiences23
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice23
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma23
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?23
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review23
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy22
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation22
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism21
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice21
Glocalising circular waste governance in tourism: legitimacy pathways from coastal destinations21
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry21
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective20
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events20
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints20
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal20
Ethnography in/for sustainable tourism: tensions, challenges and opportunities20
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers20
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior20
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities20
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark20
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices20
Grounding through objects: how phygital visitations shape visitor response20
Air travel and persuasive climate communications19
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior19
The uncertain waves: tourism, immigration, and gendered labor market dynamics19
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development19
High-resolution mapping of tourism carbon footprint and its driving factors19
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism18
Snowmaking in Austria: resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions18
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics18
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews18
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty18
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network18
Strategic responses to sustainability certification under regulatory uncertainty: a real-options perspective18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan18
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective18
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste18
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis18
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas17
Beyond green promises: sustainability and the limits of employer attraction for Gen Z in tourism and hospitality17
Unbuilding psychological ownership: heritage governance and affective dispossession in rural China17
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?17
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals17
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings17
Do not touch: understanding travelers’ implicit attitudes toward close wildlife interactions and the power of animal-welfare warning messages17
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction16
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation16
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts16
Exploring the pro-environmental behavioral intention of Generation Z in the tourism context: the role of injunctive social norms and personal norms15
Will tourists avoid visiting destinations with heritage destruction?15
Indigenous knowledge systems and socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development: insights from Indigenous Newars of Nepal15
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface15
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals15
Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’ : workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations15
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers15
“She” power: role transition and self-empowerment of women in rural tourism14
A framework for gender influences on sustainable business models in women’s tourism entrepreneurship: doing and re-doing gender14
Towards the search for a sustainable destination: a gender perspective14
Is Gen Z really that different? Environmental attitudes, travel behaviours and sustainability practices of international tourists to Canterbury, New Zealand14
A study of how LGBTQ tourists’ perceptions of residents’ feelings about them affect their revisit intentions: an emotional solidarity perspective14
Co-creating the European Transition Pathway for Tourism: a transition management approach through participatory backcasting14
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers14
Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males14
Correction14
Measurement validation of a consumer-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index for the airline industry13
Gender dynamics and sustainable practices: exploring food waste management among female chefs in the hospitality industry13
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism13
Adaptive sustainability mechanisms in rural tourism: analysis of concurrent effects of economic sanctions and cost-of-living crisis13
Ecofeminism and food activism in transformative travel as a tool for change13
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?13
Are Chinese willing to pay for travel carbon offset products?13
Farm-to-plate excursions: understanding the role of man–nature orientation and environmental information valence13
Case based research in tourism, travel, and hospitality: rethinking theory and practice13
Inspiration and pro-environmental behaviour in virtual nature-based tourism13
The influence mechanism of destination social responsibility domains on resident–tourist value co-creation intention13
Problematising inclusivity in regenerative tourism planning13
Exploring the gendered tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem in Barcelona and responses required: a feminist ethic of care13
Beyond borders: can culturally intelligent leaders make better CSR calls13
Correction13
Co-creating equitable, diverse and inclusive tourism: from race and ethnicity to a broader EDIB research agenda13
Livability and resident attitudes towards tourism12
Sustainable Narratives and technologies in tourism12
How does minimalist lifestyle drive sustainable tourism consumption? The role of egoistic motivation12
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China12
Can sustainable tourism and hospitality consumption value enhance customers’ psychological responses? The moderating roles of collectivism and religiosity12
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing12
Overconsumption and tourist ideology: how and why the Protestant Work Ethic moderates the effect of spending on consumption quantity under flat-rate pricing12
Intermediary organizations as supporters of residents’ innovativeness and empowerment in community-based tourism12
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: the relationships of meaningfulness and emotions in protected areas12
Short-term emission reductions in leisure and business air travel: assessment of taxation, regulations, sustainable aviation fuels and personal intentions12
Climate change and tourism in South and Central America11
The influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism11
Hotel performance under extreme weather: a contingency perspective on organizational resilience11
The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations11
Correction11
A theory of change approach to analysing tourism social entrepreneurship research11
Is snowmaking climate change maladaptation?11
A multidimensional perspective on the relationship between tourism and green growth11
Whose real behavior counts? Rethinking behavioral realism in sustainable tourism research – a commentary on Viglia et al. (2024)11
Advancing understanding of unionization in the hospitality industry: the role of attitudes toward unions and social justice11
The effect of elevation on tourists’ perceived co-created value: a food waste reduction perspective11
Meta-analysis of the climate change-tourism demand relationship11
Night lights versus conservation dreams: balancing human preferences with conservation goals in protected areas for sustainable nature-based noctourism11
Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism11
Destinations’ environmental orientation: a symbolic cluster analysis based on hotel employees’ environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern11
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
Tourism and the climate crisis11
Exploring the drivers of Gen Z tourists’ buycott behaviour: a lifestyle politics perspective11
When cultures collide: the double-edged effect of cultural mixing on tourist preference10
Rural tourism and evolving identities of Chinese communities in forested areas10
A novel measure indicating that a management strategy reduces the likelihood of human-made threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites10
Internal corporate social responsibility and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating roles of job satisfaction, work-family facilitation, life satisfaction, and the modera10
Bridging sustainable and regenerative tourism through a place-based approach10
Ritualized host-tourist interaction and storytelling intentions: the roles of sense of belonging and group size10
Promoting sustainable tourism with a decision support system during cost-of-living crises10
Assessing tourism compliance challenges at one of the largest whale shark aggregation sites in the world10
Co-learning through participatory evaluation: an example using Theory of Change in a large-scale EU-funded tourism intervention10
Understanding the gap of tourists’ pro-environmental intention and behavior in nature-based destinations: a social dilemma perspective10
The effects of resident-tourist interaction quality on residents’ pro-environmental behaviour through improved relationships: a combination of symmetric and asymmetric analysis10
Flipping the script: how awareness of positive consequences outweigh negative in encouraging tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior?10
The effect of heritage tourism interpretation media type on tourists’ eWOM: the moderating role of travel group size9
Environmental policies as engines for tourism eco-efficiency: quasi-experimental evidence9
Dancing with systems: participatory mapping for a paradigm shift beyond growth in the Galápagos Islands9
The Dolphins: poetry in studying ethical tourism and sustainability9
Impact evaluation with process tracing: explaining causal processes in an EU-interreg sustainable tourism intervention9
The role of longitudinal ethnography in understanding tourism’s (un)intended implications: storying contradiction and ambivalence in Cappadocia, Turkey9
Regenerating tourism and regenerating people: how tourism is achieving justice for Indigenous youths9
Rethinking evaluation in European Union-funded tourism projects: towards a practical protocol for maximising impact9
Who pays for affordable tourism? Tourism’s hidden labor subsidy in times of crisis9
Correction9
Tourist prosocial behavior: scale development and its role between tourist destination social exclusion and wellbeing9
Integrating tourists’ walk and talk: a methodological approach for tracking and analysing tourists’ real behaviours for more sustainable destinations9
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 Cup9
Destination smartness revisited: sustainability’s influence and the new Destination Smartness Scale (DSS)9
Generation Z diners’ moral judgements of restaurant food waste in the United States: a qualitative inquiry8
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism8
Eco-friendly travel during the cost-of-living crisis: beliefs, emotions, and sentiments in digital discourse8
Why Flying Less remains difficult: a theory of practice perspective on transdisciplinary climate and susta8
Tourism and climate change in Africa: informing sector responses8
The awe-habitual model: exploring tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in religious settings8
An animal welfare syllabus for wildlife tourism8
How can restaurants entice patrons to order environmentally sustainable dishes? Testing new approaches based on hedonic psychology and affective forecasting theory8
From agility to action: how AI chatbot promotes green customer citizenship behavior8
Using study abroad memories to foster sustainable tourists and global citizens8
Gen Z, tourism, and sustainable consumption, the most sustainable generation ever? A Book Review8
A visual autoethnographic study on gendered livelihoods in tourism8
Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change7
How internal and external corporate social responsibility reduce employee turnover: the mediating roles of affective commitment and organizational citizenship behavior7
A participatory waste policy reform for the hotel sector: evidence of a progressive Pay-As-You-Throw tariff7
Fostering green customer citizenship behavioral intentions through green hotel practices: the roles of pride, moral elevation, and hotel star ratings7
Unravelling green innovative behavior in pilgrimage tourism: the role of learning climate and green self-efficacy7
Tourism development in the context of ecological transformation: the role of governments’ environmental protection attention7
Timing nature’s call: how circadian rhythms affect tourists’ pro-environmental intention7
Residents’ attitudes toward land lease for rural tourism7
The dark side of mobile payments: the effect of mobile payments on tourists’ donation intentions in religious tourism7
Green behavior at work of hospitality and tourism employees: evidence from IGSCA-SEM and fsQCA7
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: a gendered perspective7
Sustainability Sham7
The influence of allocentrism on residents’ sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in collectivist rural tourism destinations – a perspective from face and guanxi7
Firms’ green knowledge sharing and tourists’ green electronic word-of-mouth intention: a two-wave time-lagged study of moderated mediation model7
Animal ethnography and a relational approach to sustainability: methodological challenges and opportunities in wildlife tourism7
Dualistic perspectives of digital marketing strategies and sustainable performance of cultural heritage tourist sites: based on qualitative and quantitative mixed methods6
Cause-related marketing in tourism: how goal framing promotes consumer prosocial behaviours6
Growing threat of marine tourism activities to whales: evidence from vessel trajectory big data mining6
The moderating effect of interest rates on the relationship between ESG and firm performance in the US restaurant industry6
(Don’t) be ashamed during take-off and landing: negotiations of flight shame in the Norwegian public debate6
Correction6
Exploring inclusivity perceptions among residents: insights from rural tourism destinations6
Measuring sustainable tourism: a state of the art review of sustainable tourism indicators6
A pragmatic approach to understanding sustainability strategies of small, private museums: accidental ethnography through critical realism6
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