Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of social norms on sustainable consumption behaviors: the unique ethos of renaissance festivals as a moderator of sustainability144
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality132
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience119
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective109
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations86
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities84
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach79
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria75
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts72
Correction71
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry58
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence57
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences56
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance53
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda52
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective52
Conceptualizing nature-based science tourism: a case study of Seili Island, Finland51
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?50
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate50
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management49
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship47
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland47
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities46
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity43
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government42
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents42
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices42
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era42
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China42
Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel41
Pacific peoples and the pandemic: exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities40
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays39
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia38
A new materialist governance paradigm for tourism destinations38
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications37
Monitoring sustainable management in local tourist destinations: performance, drivers and barriers36
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals35
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region35
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?34
From corporatist consensus to neo-liberal revolution: a gendered analysis of the hotel workers union and its impact on (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand hotel sector, 1955–200034
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel34
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest34
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination 33
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency33
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games33
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste32
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach32
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms32
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism31
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence31
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice31
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance30
Identifying the sustainability indicators of overtourism and undertourism in Majorca30
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research30
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia29
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country29
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food29
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis29
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry28
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?28
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles28
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study28
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism27
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?27
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation27
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis27
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?26
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism26
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma26
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador26
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality26
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice26
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy26
Restoring hope and optimism through staycation programs: an application of psychological capital theory25
Coping with precarity in the tourism performing arts industry: a case study of China’s Wa entertainers25
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being25
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia25
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review24
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?24
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices23
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city23
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective23
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-1922
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice22
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene22
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers21
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism21
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry21
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal21
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’20
Air travel and persuasive climate communications20
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan19
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective19
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior19
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective19
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector19
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics18
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities18
The socio-economic impact of regional tourism: an occupation-based modelling perspective from Sweden17
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface17
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty17
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction17
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network17
Gender and tourism sustainability16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts16
Advancing sustainable development goals through interdisciplinarity in sustainable tourism research16
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?15
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings15
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas15
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation15
Situational analysis as a critical methodology: mapping the tourism system in post-Katrina New Orleans15
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain15
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories15
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings15
A framework for gender influences on sustainable business models in women’s tourism entrepreneurship: doing and re-doing gender14
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals14
Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males14
Indigenous knowledge systems and socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development: insights from Indigenous Newars of Nepal14
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers14
A study of how LGBTQ tourists’ perceptions of residents’ feelings about them affect their revisit intentions: an emotional solidarity perspective14
Self-construal, moral disengagement, and unethical behavior in peer-to-peer accommodation: the moderating role of perceived consumption liquidity14
“She” power: role transition and self-empowerment of women in rural tourism14
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers14
Do crises affect the sustainability of the economic effects of tourism? A case study of Hong Kong14
Gendered Instagram representations in the aviation industry14
Towards the search for a sustainable destination: a gender perspective13
Exploring the pro-environmental behavioral intention of Generation Z in the tourism context: the role of injunctive social norms and personal norms13
Gender dynamics and sustainable practices: exploring food waste management among female chefs in the hospitality industry13
Ecofeminism and food activism in transformative travel as a tool for change13
Is Gen Z really that different? Environmental attitudes, travel behaviours and sustainability practices of international tourists to Canterbury, New Zealand13
Correction13
Measurement validation of a consumer-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index for the airline industry13
Exploring the gendered tourism entrepreneurial ecosystem in Barcelona and responses required: a feminist ethic of care13
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?12
Are Chinese willing to pay for travel carbon offset products?12
Green innovation performance: a multi-level analysis in the hotel sector12
Food waste and out-of-home-dining: antecedents and consequents of the decision to take away leftovers after dining at restaurants12
Overconsumption and tourist ideology: how and why the Protestant Work Ethic moderates the effect of spending on consumption quantity under flat-rate pricing12
Context- and culture-dependent behaviors for the greater good: a comparative analysis of plate waste generation12
Proactive environmental strategies in the hotel industry: eco-innovation, green competitive advantage, and green core competence12
Intermediary organizations as supporters of residents’ innovativeness and empowerment in community-based tourism11
The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans11
Correction11
Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages11
Understanding spectator sustainable transportation intentions in international sport tourism events11
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: the relationships of meaningfulness and emotions in protected areas11
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China11
Assessing the tourism sustainability of EU regions at the NUTS-2 level with a composite and regionalised indicator11
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing11
Guest benefits of hedonic value and perceived community value drive hotel CSR participation11
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism11
Case based research in tourism, travel, and hospitality: rethinking theory and practice11
Short-term emission reductions in leisure and business air travel: assessment of taxation, regulations, sustainable aviation fuels and personal intentions10
Tourism and the climate crisis10
Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism10
The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations10
Exploring the drivers of Gen Z tourists’ buycott behaviour: a lifestyle politics perspective10
A multidimensional perspective on the relationship between tourism and green growth10
The influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism10
Destinations’ environmental orientation: a symbolic cluster analysis based on hotel employees’ environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern10
Meta-analysis of the climate change-tourism demand relationship10
Is snowmaking climate change maladaptation?10
Factors affecting food waste at food festivals: the moderating effect of “Camera Eats First”10
How and when to activate hospitality employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment in South Korea and Vietnam10
Influence analysis of interpretation services on ecotourism behavior for wildlife tourists10
Climate change and tourism in South and Central America10
Embodiment of feminine subjectivity by women of a tourism destination9
Correction9
Limited tourism: travel bubbles for a sustainable future9
Ritualized host-tourist interaction and storytelling intentions: the roles of sense of belonging and group size9
Impacts of tourism on support for conservation, local livelihoods, and community resilience around Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya9
Rural tourism and evolving identities of Chinese communities in forested areas9
Organisational effectiveness for ethical tourism action: a phronetic perspective9
Can the subaltern speak? Contradictions in trophy hunting and wildlife conservation trajectory in Botswana9
Co-learning through participatory evaluation: an example using Theory of Change in a large-scale EU-funded tourism intervention9
The effect of destination source credibility on tourist environmentally responsible behavior: an application of stimulus-organism-response theory9
Internal corporate social responsibility and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating roles of job satisfaction, work-family facilitation, life satisfaction, and the modera9
The effect of heritage tourism interpretation media type on tourists’ eWOM: the moderating role of travel group size9
The effects of resident-tourist interaction quality on residents’ pro-environmental behaviour through improved relationships: a combination of symmetric and asymmetric analysis9
Advancing understanding of unionization in the hospitality industry: the role of attitudes toward unions and social justice9
The Dolphins: poetry in studying ethical tourism and sustainability8
Integrating tourists’ walk and talk: a methodological approach for tracking and analysing tourists’ real behaviours for more sustainable destinations8
Generation Z diners’ moral judgements of restaurant food waste in the United States: a qualitative inquiry8
A novel measure indicating that a management strategy reduces the likelihood of human-made threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites8
Disrupting structural violence in South Africa through township tourism8
Women entrepreneurs in tourism in a time of a life event crisis8
Environmental policies as engines for tourism eco-efficiency: quasi-experimental evidence8
Impact evaluation with process tracing: explaining causal processes in an EU-interreg sustainable tourism intervention8
An evidence-base for reducing the CO 2 emissions of national mega sports events: application of the three-hub model to the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup8
The awe-habitual model: exploring tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in religious settings8
Tourism and climate change in Africa: informing sector responses8
Gen Z, tourism, and sustainable consumption, the most sustainable generation ever? A Book Review7
Using study abroad memories to foster sustainable tourists and global citizens7
Sustainable cross-border tourism management: COVID-19 avoidance motive on resident hospitality7
Do we have to know the hen that lays the eggs? How the disclosure timing of robot chef identity affects consumer perceived ethicality7
Green behavior at work of hospitality and tourism employees: evidence from IGSCA-SEM and fsQCA7
An animal welfare syllabus for wildlife tourism7
How can restaurants entice patrons to order environmentally sustainable dishes? Testing new approaches based on hedonic psychology and affective forecasting theory7
Tourist prosocial behavior: scale development and its role between tourist destination social exclusion and wellbeing7
Residents’ pro-tourism behaviour in a time of COVID-197
The influence of allocentrism on residents’ sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in collectivist rural tourism destinations – a perspective from face and guanxi7
Firms’ green knowledge sharing and tourists’ green electronic word-of-mouth intention: a two-wave time-lagged study of moderated mediation model7
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: a gendered perspective7
Resident connection to nature and attitudes towards tourism: findings from three different rural nature tourism destinations in Poland7
Flipping the script: how awareness of positive consequences outweigh negative in encouraging tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior?7
Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change7
The dark side of mobile payments: the effect of mobile payments on tourists’ donation intentions in religious tourism7
Residents’ attitudes toward land lease for rural tourism7
Sustainability Sham7
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism7
A gender approach to the impact of COVID-19 on tourism employment6
Anchoring “tourism value” within a regenerative tourism paradigm – a government perspective6
Code red for sustainable tourism6
Animal ethnography and a relational approach to sustainability: methodological challenges and opportunities in wildlife tourism6
Dualistic perspectives of digital marketing strategies and sustainable performance of cultural heritage tourist sites: based on qualitative and quantitative mixed methods6
Ethically meaningful customer experiences: satisfying an evolving desire for purpose through CSR6
A participatory waste policy reform for the hotel sector: evidence of a progressive Pay-As-You-Throw tariff6
Unravelling green innovative behavior in pilgrimage tourism: the role of learning climate and green self-efficacy6
Reimagining children’s participation: a child rights informed approach to social justice in tourism6
Growing threat of marine tourism activities to whales: evidence from vessel trajectory big data mining6
How does experienced compassion influence community citizenship behaviour? The roles of psychological contracts and regulatory focus6
Rural resiliency through peer-to-peer accommodations6
Fostering green customer citizenship behavioral intentions through green hotel practices: the roles of pride, moral elevation, and hotel star ratings6
Do international sanctions help or inhibit justice and sustainability in tourism?6
Two years of COVID-19 and tourism: what we learned, and what we should have learned6
The moderating effect of interest rates on the relationship between ESG and firm performance in the US restaurant industry6
Reducing unethical pro-organizational behavior in the hospitality sector through socially responsible human resource practices and responsible leadership6
Correction6
Role of corporate sustainability disclosures in moderating the impact of country-level uncertainties on tourism sector firms’ risk5
Green influencer marketing: conceptualization, scale development, and validation: an application to tourism products5
Can sustainability drive tourism development in small rural areas? Evidences from the Adriatic5
Hotels’ green leadership and employee pro-environmental behaviour, the role of value congruence and moral consciousness: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches5
Understanding sensescapes and restorative effects of nature-based destinations: a mixed-methods approach5
(Don’t) be ashamed during take-off and landing: negotiations of flight shame in the Norwegian public debate5
Understanding the host heterogeneity in religious destination: a multigroup analysis of distance perceptions and emotional solidarity5
Collective actions and crisis adaptation of a rural tourism community5
Destination net-zero: what does the international energy agency roadmap mean for tourism?5
Exploring Chinese sustainable tourism: a 25-year perspective5
National destination pledges as innovative visitor management tools – social marketing for behaviour change in tourism5
Rethinking tourism’s definition, scope and future of sustainable work and employment: editorial for the Journal of Sustainable Tourism special issue on “locating workforce at the heart of susta5
Sustainability knowledge management and organisational learning in tourism: current approaches and areas for future development5
The transferability of passion: how green influencers inspire tourists’ green initiative support5
Small island developing states, tourism and climate change5
Consumers’ intention to visit green hotels – a goal-framing theory perspective5
Promoting pro-environmental behaviour spillover through chatbots5
Exploring inclusivity perceptions among residents: insights from rural tourism destinations5
The poor on the road: qiongyou as a collective resistance and justice tourism5
Exploring how perceived tourism impacts evolve over time (2009–2019) in an era of uncertainty: economic crisis, host-guest interactions, and Airbnb5
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