OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 15. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	135
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	128
The influence of social norms on sustainable consumption behaviors: the unique ethos of renaissance festivals as a moderator of sustainability	113
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	103
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	77
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	77
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	74
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	70
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	69
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences	66
Conceptualizing nature-based science tourism: a case study of Seili Island, Finland	58
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	56
Correction	52
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance	52
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	52
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	52
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	52
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	49
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	49
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	49
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	47
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	46
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	46
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland	46
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	44

Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	44
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	42
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	40
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	40
Pacific peoples and the pandemic: exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities	39
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	39
Monitoring sustainable management in local tourist destinations: performance, drivers and barriers	38
Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel	38
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	37
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	36
A new materialist governance paradigm for tourism destinations	36
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	35
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	35
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	34
A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism	34
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	34
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	33
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	32
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	32
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	31
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	31
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	30
From corporatist consensus to neo-liberal revolution: a gendered analysis of the hotel workers union and its impact on (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand hotel sector, 1955–2000	30
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	30
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	30
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	29
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	29
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	29
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	29
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	29
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	29
Identifying the sustainability indicators of overtourism and undertourism in Majorca	29
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	28
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	28
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism	27
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	27
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	27
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	27
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	27
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	27
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	26
Coping with precarity in the tourism performing arts industry: a case study of China’s Wa entertainers	26
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	26
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	26
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	26
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	26
Restoring hope and optimism through staycation programs: an application of psychological capital theory	25
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	25
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	25
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	25

From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	24
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	24
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	24
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	24
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	24
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	23
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	23
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	22
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	22
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’	21
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	21
The tourism business operator as a moral gatekeeper – the relational work of recreational hunting in Sweden	21
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	21
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	21
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	21
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	21
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	20
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	20
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector	20
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	20
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	20
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	20
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	19
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	19
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	18
The socio-economic impact of regional tourism: an occupation-based modelling perspective from Sweden	18
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	18
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	18
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	18
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	17
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	17
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	17
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	16
Advancing sustainable development goals through interdisciplinarity in sustainable tourism research	16
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	16
Situational analysis as a critical methodology: mapping the tourism system in post-Katrina New Orleans	16
Gender and tourism sustainability	16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	15
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	15
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals	15
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	15
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers	15
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	15
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	15