OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 35. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How customers matter to tourism employees’ green creative behavior?	132
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	124
Overconsumption and tourist ideology: how and why the Protestant Work Ethic moderates the effect of spending on consumption quantity under flat-rate pricing	113
Cause-related marketing in tourism: how goal framing promotes consumer prosocial behaviours	96
The influence of social norms on sustainable consumption behaviors: the unique ethos of renaissance festivals as a moderator of sustainability	83
Tourism & climate change in North America: regional state of knowledge	74
Tourism under climate crisis in Asia: impacts and implications	73
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	70
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	68
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	67
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	63
Hotels’ green leadership and employee pro-environmental behaviour, the role of value congruence and moral consciousness: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches	58
Rural resiliency through peer-to-peer accommodations	56
Coping with precarity in the tourism performing arts industry: a case study of China’s Wa entertainers	51
The moderating effect of interest rates on the relationship between ESG and firm performance in the US restaurant industry	51
Healthy persuasion: a values-based messaging approach to leisure air travel decision-making	51
Ethically meaningful customer experiences: satisfying an evolving desire for purpose through CSR	51
The impact of the media on tourism development and income inequality	50
Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism	49
Responses to vignettes as a methodology to reveal hoteliers’ sustainability practices, knowledge and competencies	47
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China	47
Involving stakeholders in the evaluation of the sustainability of a tourist destination: a novel comprehensive approach	46
Advancing a social justice-orientated agenda through research: a review of refugee-related research in tourism	44
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	44
The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans	44

Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	43
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism	41
Consumer behaviours in social enterprises: empathy with employees with disabilities and intention to revisit the social restaurant	41
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	39
Backpacker-community conflict: the nexus between perceived skills development and sustainable behavior	38
Transforming rural communities through tourism development: an examination of empowerment and disempowerment processes	37
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	37
National destination pledges as innovative visitor management tools – social marketing for behaviour change in tourism	36
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism	36
Tourism governance and enabling drivers for intensifying climate action	35
Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages	35