OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourist behavior: the essential companion	28
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	23
“Murder in mykonos”: potentials and limitations of crime fiction literary tourism in Greece	16
The rhetoric of tourism diplomacy: a study on Türkiye's tourism cooperation with Russia and Germany	16
Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age	15
Travel behavior of Italian gay and lesbian tourists: destination selection, safety considerations, and preferences	15
Exploring the perceived conflicts by rural residents in relation to the expansion of the second-homes	14
Creative activities offered in a UNESCO creative city of crafts and folk art	11
Heritage tourism: authenticity vs sustainability in living museums	11
From place disruption to attachment: another perspective for international student mobility	11
Participatory, purposeful, and digitally smart: a bottom-up approach to designing intangible cultural heritage tourism experiences	10
The quiet encroachment of women’s agency through travel	9
‘If you did not have a photo with the bear, you weren’t on vacation’: souvenir photographs from communist vacationing in Romania	8
When language shapes landscape: quantifying tourism image discrepancy of Macao historic centre through bilingual lens	8
From the centre to the periphery: intangible cultural heritage in rural areas	8
Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750–1850	8
Understanding the evolution of the guided tours: the case of Türkiye	7
Ageism in tourism: an intergroup contact theory approach	7
The subjectivity of Miao people in tourism representations	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	7
OACTD: an ontology-embedded model for heritage tourism reviews to assign cultural tourism data	7
Tourism as creative destruction: place making and resilience in rural areas	7
Redefining the digital contract: ethics, AI-personalisation and trust in generation Z's vision of tourism marketing	6

Tourism under siege: dealing with the side effects of selected crises on the Ukrainian tourism industry	6
Tourism alienation in an accelerated society: a case study of China ’ s ‘special forces style tourism’	6
Cultural heritage interpretation and tourists’ historical empathy: the role of imagination level, destination image proximity and text direction	6
Critical success factors for tourism routes: insights from route characteristics	5
Globalization and postcolonial conflicts through the lens of a tourism undergraduate curriculum in Mozambique	5
Moving lifestyle migration beyond the sun: a eudaimonic well-being approach	5
A semiology of representations in tourism destination image: social construction of a Korean Hallyu narrative	4
Moroccan tourism narratives orientalizing Imazighen/Amazigh people	4
Heritage railways as tourist attractions: a systematic review	4
Restaurant space design and place-based storytelling: a new vocabulary for understanding ‘Sense of place' in fine dining space design	4
Conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism in Southern Africa: contemporary issues and approaches	4
Forming collective identity at a Chinese-Malaysian new village	4
Thai boys’ love pilgrimages and experiential tourism: Chinese female fandom in a queer utopia	3
Walking with the mother: therapeutic mobilities and affective community in Taiwan’s Baishatun Mazu Pilgrimage	3
Authenticity in creative tourism experiences: international perspectives	3
The potential of music tourism for destination development: the case of Carlingford, Ireland	3
Exploring memorable peer-to-peer local-guided experience: the role of guide performance in Istanbul	3
Multi-sensory architecture and the design experience in restaurants	3