OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 14. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	188
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	167
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	133
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	128
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	112
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	101
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	89
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability	84
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	66
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	64
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	63
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	63
Correction	63
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	60
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	57
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	52
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	52
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	51
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	50
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	50
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	49
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	45
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	42
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	41
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	41

Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	41
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	40
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	40
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	39
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	39
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	39
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	37
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	37
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	37
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	36
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	34
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	34
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	33
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	33
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	33
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	32
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	32
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	31
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	29
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	29
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	29
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	29
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	29
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	29
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	28
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	26
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	26
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	25
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	25
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators	25
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	25
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	24
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	24
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	24
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels	24
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	24
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	24
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	23
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	22
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	22
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	22
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	22
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	21
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	21
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	21
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	21
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	20
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	20
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints	20
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	20

Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	20
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	20
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	20
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	19
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	19
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark	19
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	19
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	19
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	19
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	18
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events	18
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	18
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	18
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	18
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	17
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	17
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	17
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	17
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism	17
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	17
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	17
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	17
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis	17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	16
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	16
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	16
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	16
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	15
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	15
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	15
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews	15
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	15
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	15
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	14
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	14
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	14
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	14
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	14
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers	14
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	14
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	14