OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 16. 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.)

Article	Citations
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability	203
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	156
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	139
Videography-facilitated nature-based mindfulness at natural destinations	118
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	92
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	89
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	85
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	84
Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective	82
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	76
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	71
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	70
Correction	66
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	66
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	61
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	60
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	57
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	52
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	51
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	51
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	51
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	49
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	49
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	46
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	45

Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	45
Building sustainable tourism communities: a blueprint for the future	43
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 Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	37
From “Sacred Spaces” to “Selfie Spots”: how social media sharing motivations transform tourist-destination relationships	37
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	34
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	34
Visualizing sustainability: how landscape diversity shapes crowding tolerance on urban aerial trails	33
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	33
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	33
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	32
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	32
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	31
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	31
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	31
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	30
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	30
Being a champion for sustainability: enhancing organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment through positive group perception in the hotel industry	30
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	29
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	29
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	29
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	29
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	28
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	27
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 analysis	27
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	27
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators	27
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	26
Beyond economic benefits: an integrated model of how and when destination social responsibility drives residents’ brand-building behaviors	26
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	26
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels	26
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	26
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	26
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	25
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	25
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	25
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	25
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	25
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	24
From intention to action: a longitudinal study of pro-environmental behavior change through nature-based sporting events	24
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 experiences	24
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	23
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	23
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	22
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	22
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	22
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	22

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 inequality	21
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	20
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	20
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events	20
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	20
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	20
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	20
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	20
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
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	19
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism	19
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	19
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints	19
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	19
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis	19
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	19
Grounding through objects: how phygital visitations shape visitor response	19
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	19
High-resolution mapping of tourism carbon footprint and its driving factors	18
Strategic responses to sustainability certification under regulatory uncertainty: a real-options perspective	18
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	18
Snowmaking in Austria: resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions	17
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	17
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	17
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	17
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	17
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	17
Do not touch: understanding travelers’ implicit attitudes toward close wildlife interactions and the power of animal-welfare warning messages	17
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	17
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	16
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	16
Beyond green promises: sustainability and the limits of employer attraction for Gen Z in tourism and hospitality	16
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	16
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	16
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	16
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews	16
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	16
Will tourists avoid visiting destinations with heritage destruction?	16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	16
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	16
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	16