OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education is 4. 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
Whence legitimate peripheral participation? De-trivializing the social dynamics around Chinese students' doctoral research in the West	93
Using active learning strategies on travel and tourism higher education programmes in Ireland	70
Exploring the role of a serious game in developing competencies in higher tourism education	56
The behavior model of psychological contract between sports teachers and undergraduate students in China	48
University and industry cooperation from the perspective of hotel managers: The case of Türkiye	42
Statistical learning in sports education: A case study on improving quantitative analysis skills through project-based learning	39
Personality is no stranger to occupational choice among hospitality graduates	38
The relationship between career adaptability, hope, resilience, and life satisfaction for hospitality students in times of Covid-19	37
The power of engaged reflection in fostering new insights on diversity, equity and inclusion	36
Hospitality and tourism management student satisfaction with their majors and career readiness amid the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Using synchronous hybrid pedagogy to nurture a community of inquiry: Insights from a tourism Master's programme	33
Hospitality students at the online classes during COVID-19 – How personality affects experience?	32
The roles of cognitive benefits and technology usage in predicting students’ sustainable behavioural intentions: The moderating roles of data literacy and marketing strategy	32
Examining the core competencies for success in the hotel industry: The case of Cyprus	29
Realtime online courses mutated amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical study in hospitality program	28
Sport students’ experiences of teaching and learning in the United Kingdom: A comparison between further and higher education settings	26
Editorial Board	25
Exposure to netflix enhances listening effort and learning motivation among MICE learners	24
Presenting the case for implementing entrustable professional activities (EPA) in Sport and Exercise Sciences teaching: Application and alignment to develop student competencies	22
A virtual versus blended learning approach to higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experiences of a sport and exercise science student cohort	22
Factors affecting hotel interns’ satisfaction with internship experience and career intention in China	22
Tour guiding practice and feedback in guide education: Lessons from London for Japan	20
Navigating external referencing through COVID-19 disruptions - Teaching tourism policy and planning in Australia and China	20
Sustainability courses in hospitality and tourism higher education: Perspectives from industry practitioners and students	19
Exploring antecedents of social loafing in students’ group work: A mixed-methods approach	19

Experiential learning from the perspective of outdoor education leaders	18
A case study of sustainable hospitality education relating to food waste from the perspective of transformative learning theory	17
A bibliometric study on higher tourism education and curriculum	16
Intergenerational service learning outcomes for event management undergraduates involved in organizing Pickleball events	16
University students’ perception to online class delivery methods during the COVID-19 pandemic: A focus on hospitality education in Korea and Malaysia	16
What Shapes E-Learning Effectiveness among Tourism Education Students? An Empirical Assessment during COVID19	16
International graduate students’ perspectives on sense of belonging in leisure	15
“It feels like a job …” Understanding commuter students: Motivations, engagement, and learning experiences	15
The impact of student attendance on assessment specific performance in sport degree programs	15
Learning experiences in the culinary classroom: Identifying barriers and enablers in the practical teaching-learning process in gastronomy	15
Enhancing university student employability through practical experiential learning in the sport industry: An industry-academia cooperation case from Taiwan	15
Graduate employability and higher education’s contributions to human resource development in sport business before and after COVID-19	14
Undergraduate sport sciences students’ attitudes towards statistics: A gender perspective	13
Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis	13
Career beliefs, self-efficacy and VUCA skills: A study among generation Z female students of tourism and hospitality	12
The impacts of school support and hotel support on hotel interns’ career growth: The mediation of role clarity and occupational identification	12
Entry-level professional competencies and skills in tourism – The case of Slovakia	12
Editorial Board	12
Socialising students for Philosophic Practice? An analysis of learning outcomes in tourism taught Master's programmes	12
What drives green experiential outcomes in tourism higher education?	11
Student perspectives of event design: Learning and transformation using the #EventCanvas methodology	11
The importance of context: How university entrepreneurial climates enhances entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality graduates	10
Implementation of actions by higher education institutions to stimulate sport entrepreneurship.	10
To stay or not to stay? The causal effect of interns’ career intention on enhanced employability and retention in the hospitality and tourism industry	9
Artificial intelligence in sport management education: Playing the AI game with ChatGPT	9
Understanding academic dishonesty during the thesis-writing process: A case study of students majoring in tourism and hospitality	9
Can we buffer them? Supporting healthy levels of stress and anxiety in first year international students	8
Grab the Mic: Connecting theory and practice within an undergraduate sport communication course	8
Big data meets sustainable marketing: A new integrated curriculum for hospitality education	8
“You've already, kind of, got the wheels moving a little bit”; students' value of pre-arrival support in transitioning into higher education	8
Learning tourism and hospitality subjects with massive open online courses (MOOCs): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study	8
Implementing community-based tourism (CBT): Lessons learnt and implications by involving students in a CBT project in Laelae Island, Indonesia	8
Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?	8
How technology facilitates tourism education in COVID-19:case study of nankai University	7
Why you leave and what can we do? The roles of job burnout and vocational skill in hotel internships	7
Exploring critical issues in event planning through a group research and jigsaw presentation project	7
Teaching Spoken English for hospitality management major in China	7
“It should have been named women's rights … I was displeased”: Teaching about gender ideology in the sport sociology classroom	7
A model to establish a zero food waste competence scale for hospitality students	7
Teaching generic skill sets to sport undergraduates to increase their employability and promote smooth college-to-work transition	7
A Systematic Review of hospitality and tourism management students’ career intentions	7
Are higher education institutions preparing future tourism professionals for tourism for all? An overview from Portuguese higher education tourism programmes	6
From the classroom to the Living Lab for developing competencies in tourism higher education	6
Incorporating the student voice in undergraduate tourism curriculum in China	6
Sport law in U.S. undergraduate sport management programs: What should we be teaching?	6
The impact of perceived education quality on tourism and hospitality students’ career choice: The mediating effects of academic self-efficacy	6
The mediating role of future career anxiety in the effect of academic satisfaction on brain-drain among tourism & hospitality students: Moderator effect of fear of natural disasters	6
Small College Sport Management Students: A Population & Performance Case Study	6
Integrating STEM interdisciplinary design into hospitality education to investigate students’ learning effectiveness: Taking a biscuit-baking activity with problem-based learning	6
Inclusion, infusion, or confusion: Exploring how faculty address adaptive sport and recreation in the sport management classroom	6

ChatGPT and learning outcomes in tourism education: The role of digital literacy and individualized learning	6
Editorial Board	6
Maximizing study abroad learning outcomes through cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence development	6
Trend and visualizing of historical tourism in education research during last twenty years: A bibliometric review and analysis	6
A tale of two classes: Tourism students’ cognitive loads and learning outcomes in face-to-face and online classes	5
Online learning in higher education in the UK: Exploring the experiences of sports students and staff	5
Conceptualization of diversity and inclusion: Tensions and contradictions in the sport management classroom	5
ChatGPT in practice: Increasing event planning efficiency through artificial intelligence	5
Travel Professors: A YouTube channel about tourism education & research	5
Evaluation of entrustable professional activities and competency assessment in sport and exercise sciences in higher education: Student perceptions of the impact on learning	5
Tourism vocational education: Relations of input and output	5
Curriculum evaluation of tourism undergraduate programs in Turkey: A CIPP model-based framework	5
Engaging students through authentic learning: Connecting with international tourism partners	4
The two-way perspective of tourism undergraduates towards (post-)viral world: The future of tourism, and vocational development and career	4
How internship environmental factors affect students’ career intentions in the hotel industry through the reflective thinking processes	4
Which combination of teaching methods lead to high level of effectiveness in offline-online mixed teaching? A configuration analysis based on fsQCA	4
A possible transformation of tourism education: A chaos theory perspective	4
Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation	4
Student's perceptions of sharing platforms and digital learning for sustainable behaviour and value changes	4
TikTok for learning through movement, dramatization, and music: Insights for higher education applications in sport sciences	4
A Comparative Analysis on the Career Perceptions of Tourism Management Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The effect of professional expectations of tour guiding students on their professional motivation	4
Some specifics of Czech recreation and leisure studies’ students: Personality types based on MBTI	4
Determinants of hospitality students' perceived learning during COVID 19 pandemic: Role of interactions and self-efficacy	4
Perceived value within an international hospitality learning environment: Antecedents and outcomes	4
A deep introspection into the role of ChatGPT for transforming hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education	4
Using goal-setting theory and expectancy theory to understand career goal implementation in the hospitality industry	4