OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourist behavior: the essential companion	26
Eurocentric cultural theme parks in Japan: domestic tourists’ perspectives on place branding	25
In search of health: medical tourism at the US-Mexico border/lands	20
The rhetoric of tourism diplomacy: a study on Türkiye's tourism cooperation with Russia and Germany	15
Travel behavior of Italian gay and lesbian tourists: destination selection, safety considerations, and preferences	15
“Murder in mykonos”: potentials and limitations of crime fiction literary tourism in Greece	15
Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age	13
From place disruption to attachment: another perspective for international student mobility	12
Exploring the perceived conflicts by rural residents in relation to the expansion of the second-homes	12
Heritage tourism: authenticity vs sustainability in living museums	11
The quiet encroachment of women’s agency through travel	10
Participatory, purposeful, and digitally smart: a bottom-up approach to designing intangible cultural heritage tourism experiences	10
Creative activities offered in a UNESCO creative city of crafts and folk art	10
‘If you did not have a photo with the bear, you weren’t on vacation’: souvenir photographs from communist vacationing in Romania	8
From the centre to the periphery: intangible cultural heritage in rural areas	8
When language shapes landscape: quantifying tourism image discrepancy of Macao historic centre through bilingual lens	8
Ageism in tourism: an intergroup contact theory approach	7
Tourism as creative destruction: place making and resilience in rural areas	7
Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750–1850	7
Religious Temporal Seasonality in tourism: insights from Indonesia’s Ramadan-Eid cycle	7
‘The lady ghost’ in the Recoleta Argentinian graveyard: dark tourism and ghostly narrative itineraries	6
OACTD: an ontology-embedded model for heritage tourism reviews to assign cultural tourism data	6
Understanding the evolution of the guided tours: the case of Türkiye	6
Cross-cultural aspects of tourism and hospitality: a services marketing and management perspective	6
Cultural heritage interpretation and tourists’ historical empathy: the role of imagination level, destination image proximity and text direction	6

The subjectivity of Miao people in tourism representations	6
Moving lifestyle migration beyond the sun: a eudaimonic well-being approach	5
Heritage railways as tourist attractions: a systematic review	5
Moroccan tourism narratives orientalizing Imazighen/Amazigh people	5
Tourism under siege: dealing with the side effects of selected crises on the Ukrainian tourism industry	5
A semiology of representations in tourism destination image: social construction of a Korean Hallyu narrative	5
Redefining the digital contract: ethics, AI-personalisation and trust in generation Z's vision of tourism marketing	5
Globalization and postcolonial conflicts through the lens of a tourism undergraduate curriculum in Mozambique	5
Forming collective identity at a Chinese-Malaysian new village	4
Walking with the mother: therapeutic mobilities and affective community in Taiwan’s Baishatun Mazu Pilgrimage	4
Conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism in Southern Africa: contemporary issues and approaches	4
Restaurant space design and place-based storytelling: a new vocabulary for understanding ‘Sense of place' in fine dining space design	4
Critical success factors for tourism routes: insights from route characteristics	4