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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	196
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability	177
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	141
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	134
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	114
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	111
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	98
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	87
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	72
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	68
Correction	68
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	66
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	64
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	60
Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective	54
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	53
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	53
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	53
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	51
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	50
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	48
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	47
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	47
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	44
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	42

Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	41
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	41
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	40
Promoting sustainability in hotels: do guests commit and save water?	40
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	39
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	38
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	38
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	38
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	36
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	35
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	35
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	34
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	34
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	33
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	31
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	30
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	30
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	30
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	30
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	29
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	29
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	27
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	27
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	27
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	27
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	26
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	26
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	26
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	26
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	25
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels	25
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	25
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators	25
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	25
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	24
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	24
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	24
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	23
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	22
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	22
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	22
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	22
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	22
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	21
From pity to allyship: reimagining inclusive tourism through blind-led sensory experiences	21
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	21
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	21
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints	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

Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	20
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	20
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	20
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	20
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	19
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark	19
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	19
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	19
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	19
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	19
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	19
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events	19
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	18
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	18
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	18
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	18
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism	17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	17
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	17
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	17
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis	17
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	17
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	17
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	16
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	16
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	16
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	15
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	15
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	15
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
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	14
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	14
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews	14
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals	14
Self-construal, moral disengagement, and unethical behavior in peer-to-peer accommodation: the moderating role of perceived consumption liquidity	14
Indigenous knowledge systems and socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development: insights from Indigenous Newars of Nepal	14
Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males	14
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	14
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	14
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	14
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	14
“She” power: role transition and self-empowerment of women in rural tourism	14
Is Gen Z really that different? Environmental attitudes, travel behaviours and sustainability practices of international tourists to Canterbury, New Zealand	14
A framework for gender influences on sustainable business models in women’s tourism entrepreneurship: doing and re-doing gender	14
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	14
Do not touch: understanding travelers’ implicit attitudes toward close wildlife interactions and the power of animal-welfare warning messages	14
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	14
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers	14
‘ Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’ : workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations	14
A study of how LGBTQ tourists’ perceptions of residents’ feelings about them affect their revisit intentions: an emotional solidarity perspective	14
Exploring the pro-environmental behavioral intention of Generation Z in the tourism context: the role of injunctive social norms and personal norms	14