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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
How customers matter to tourism employees’ green creative behavior?132
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations124
Overconsumption and tourist ideology: how and why the Protestant Work Ethic moderates the effect of spending on consumption quantity under flat-rate pricing113
Cause-related marketing in tourism: how goal framing promotes consumer prosocial behaviours96
The influence of social norms on sustainable consumption behaviors: the unique ethos of renaissance festivals as a moderator of sustainability83
Tourism & climate change in North America: regional state of knowledge74
Tourism under climate crisis in Asia: impacts and implications73
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma70
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice68
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador67
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective63
Hotels’ green leadership and employee pro-environmental behaviour, the role of value congruence and moral consciousness: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches58
Rural resiliency through peer-to-peer accommodations56
Healthy persuasion: a values-based messaging approach to leisure air travel decision-making51
Ethically meaningful customer experiences: satisfying an evolving desire for purpose through CSR51
Coping with precarity in the tourism performing arts industry: a case study of China’s Wa entertainers51
The moderating effect of interest rates on the relationship between ESG and firm performance in the US restaurant industry51
The impact of the media on tourism development and income inequality50
Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism49
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China47
Responses to vignettes as a methodology to reveal hoteliers’ sustainability practices, knowledge and competencies47
Involving stakeholders in the evaluation of the sustainability of a tourist destination: a novel comprehensive approach46
The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans44
Advancing a social justice-orientated agenda through research: a review of refugee-related research in tourism44
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts44
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities43
Consumer behaviours in social enterprises: empathy with employees with disabilities and intention to revisit the social restaurant41
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism41
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality39
Backpacker-community conflict: the nexus between perceived skills development and sustainable behavior38
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being37
Transforming rural communities through tourism development: an examination of empowerment and disempowerment processes37
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism36
National destination pledges as innovative visitor management tools – social marketing for behaviour change in tourism36
Tourism governance and enabling drivers for intensifying climate action35
Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages35
(Don’t) be ashamed during take-off and landing: negotiations of flight shame in the Norwegian public debate34
Do tourists value responsible sustainability in whale-watching tourism? Exploring sustainability and consumption preferences34
Assessing the tourism sustainability of EU regions at the NUTS-2 level with a composite and regionalised indicator33
A safe space for local knowledge sharing in sustainable tourism: an organisational justice perspective33
Guest benefits of hedonic value and perceived community value drive hotel CSR participation33
The effect of awe on tourists’ responsible behavioral intention in a mountainous religious tourism destination: evidence from China32
Tourism and social marketing: an integrative review31
Exploring inclusivity perceptions among residents: insights from rural tourism destinations31
Understanding the acceptance of carbon offset programs among hospitality consumers: an application of the extended parallel process model29
Scratching beneath the surface: a systems thinking approach for uncovering hidden dynamics impacting tourism and poaching29
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality29
Correction29
Modelling a smart tech user journey to decarbonise tourist accommodation29
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience28
How does experienced compassion influence community citizenship behaviour? The roles of psychological contracts and regulatory focus28
Intermediary organizations as supporters of residents’ innovativeness and empowerment in community-based tourism28
The role of frame resonance in resistance to touristification: how Amsterdam came to ban tourist shops from its inner city28
How does digital media engagement influence sustainability-driven political consumerism among Gen Z tourists?27
Are water-centric themes in sustainable tourism research congruent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals?27
Protecting yourself and others: festival tourists’ pro-social intentions for wearing a mask, maintaining social distancing, and practicing sanitary/hygiene actions27
Restoring hope and optimism through staycation programs: an application of psychological capital theory27
Understanding spectator sustainable transportation intentions in international sport tourism events27
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy26
Impact of awe on sustainable tourism consumption decisions: roles of diminished self-importance and regulatory focus26
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism26
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?26
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach26
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 susta25
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review25
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: the relationships of meaningfulness and emotions in protected areas25
Measuring sustainable tourism: a state of the art review of sustainable tourism indicators25
Correction25
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia24
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation24
Evidence-informed decision-making in sustainable tourism: from research to action24
Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism24
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing24
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria23
Reducing unethical pro-organizational behavior in the hospitality sector through socially responsible human resource practices and responsible leadership22
Destinations’ environmental orientation: a symbolic cluster analysis based on hotel employees’ environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern22
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal21
Consumers’ intention to visit green hotels – a goal-framing theory perspective21
Tourism development discourse dynamics in a context of conflicts between mining and nature conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado Hotspot21
Short-term emission reductions in leisure and business air travel: assessment of taxation, regulations, sustainable aviation fuels and personal intentions21
The historical structuring of the U.S. tourism workforce: a critical review21
Unveiling the hidden carbon footprint of the tourism industry: a comprehensive analysis and policy implications20
Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities: a three-dimensional approach20
Green influencer marketing: conceptualization, scale development, and validation: an application to tourism products20
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene20
The carbon footprint of regional tourism trips: insights from environmentally extended regional input output analysis20
Healing mechanism of rural tourism on urban employee unhappiness: a logotherapy theory perspective20
Conceptualizing nature-based science tourism: a case study of Seili Island, Finland20
Living in theWakeof Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism19
The poor on the road: qiongyou as a collective resistance and justice tourism19
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda18
Seeking a deeper level of responsibility for inclusive (eco)tourism duty and the pinnacle of practice18
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-1918
Influence analysis of interpretation services on ecotourism behavior for wildlife tourists18
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence18
Wildlife tourism and consumption18
Correction18
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices17
Membership duration of tourism firms in the United Nations Global Compact Programme17
The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations17
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences17
Exploring travelers’ willingness to pay for green hotels in the digital era17
Small island developing states, tourism and climate change16
Promoting pro-environmental behaviour spillover through chatbots16
How does social entrepreneurship achieve sustainable development goals in rural tourism destinations? The role of legitimacy and social capital16
Strategies in sustainable tourism, economic growth & clean energy Strategies in sustainable tourism, economic growth & clean energy , edited by D. Balsalobre-Lor16
Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism15
Expanding protected areas: a case for repairing intergenerational social capital rather than taking the path of least resistance15
Exploring Chinese sustainable tourism: a 25-year perspective15
Is the pursuit of pleasure on vacation a barrier to environmentally sustainable behaviour?15
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry15
Children and overtourism: a cognitive neuroscience experiment to reflect on exposure and behavioural consequences15
Platform-mediated tourism: social justice and urban governance before and during Covid-1914
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city14
Will tourists’ pro-environmental behavior influence their well-being? An examination from the perspective of warm glow theory14
How does destination social responsibility impact residents’ quality of life? The mechanisms of disclosure entity, communal relationship, and perceived warmth14
Sustainability knowledge management and organisational learning in tourism: current approaches and areas for future development14
Decent work and tourism workers in the age of intelligent automation and digital surveillance13
Exploring the role of women entrepreneurs in revitalizing historic Nazareth13
Last chance for wildlife: making tourism count for conservation13
Understanding sensescapes and restorative effects of nature-based destinations: a mixed-methods approach13
Catching feelings in nature: experiential insights about access and inclusion in parks, protected and other conserved areas13
Effects of behavioral intention and dynamic capabilities on circular economy adoption and performance of tourism SMEs13
Resident perceptions and responses to tourism: individual vs community level impacts13
Zero tourism due to COVID-19: an opportunity to assess water consumption associated to tourism12
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’12
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers12
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective12
Sustainability and local food at tourist destinations: a study from the transformative perspective12
Engendering prosociality through tourist-to-tourist interaction in religious tourism: an existential transformative perspective12
Sustainable tourism indicators as policy making tools: lessons from ETIS implementation at destination level12
Gain or loss? The congruence effect of message framing and mindset on consumers’ willingness to pay a premium for pro-environmental hotels12
Factors affecting food waste at food festivals: the moderating effect of “Camera Eats First”12
Can sustainability drive tourism development in small rural areas? Evidences from the Adriatic11
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance11
Meta-analysis of the climate change-tourism demand relationship11
Climate change and tourism in South and Central America11
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective11
Is snowmaking climate change maladaptation?11
The double-edged sword of wine tourism: the economic and environmental impacts of wine tourism in Australia11
Ecological restoration and visitor experiences: insights informed by environmental philosophy11
A multidimensional perspective on the relationship between tourism and green growth11
Exploring the drivers of Gen Z tourists’ buycott behaviour: a lifestyle politics perspective10
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics10
How and when to activate hospitality employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment in South Korea and Vietnam10
Justice and community citizenship behavior for the environment: small tourism business entrepreneurs’ perspectives10
“We are reconciliators”: When Indigenous tourism begins with agency10
The influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism10
Destination net-zero: what does the international energy agency roadmap mean for tourism?10
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry10
Seeking justice beyond the platform economy: migrant workers navigating precarious lives10
Tourism and the climate crisis10
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice10
What is to be sustained? The polysemy of sustainability and sustainable tourism across languages and cultures9
How moral disengagement links to destination marketing organisations’ moral muteness in their sustainability communications9
Advancing understanding of unionization in the hospitality industry: the role of attitudes toward unions and social justice9
A meta-analysis of sustainable tourist behavioral intention and the moderating effects of national culture9
A relational exploration of tourists’ environmental values and their perception of restrictions in protected nature9
Nudge plus in tourism: reflexive behaviours and reflective attitudes9
Changes in mobility patterns and the switching roles of second homes as a result of the first wave of COVID-199
Food and wine presence and pairing within traditional restaurants’ menus as regional heritage promotional behaviour: Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft?9
Swimming with humans: biotelemetry reveals effects of “gold standard” regulated tourism on whale sharks9
Embodiment of feminine subjectivity by women of a tourism destination9
The double whammy effect of gender and age on customer responses: a focus on tour guides9
Social-ecological wellbeing of communities engaged in ecotourism: Perspectives from Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhutan8
Limited tourism: travel bubbles for a sustainable future8
Advancing critico-relational inquiry: is tourism studies ready for a relational turn?8
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship8
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development8
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities8
Multispecies livelihoods: a posthumanist approach to wildlife ecotourism that promotes animal ethics8
Strategic approaches to accessible ecotourism: small steps, the domino effect and not paving paradise8
Do employees hold the key to environmental sustainability in tourism businesses? Empirical evidence from a field study8
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity8
The effects of resident-tourist interaction quality on residents’ pro-environmental behaviour through improved relationships: a combination of symmetric and asymmetric analysis8
Breaking bad: how anticipated emotions and perceived severity shape tourist civility?8
Socialising tourism: rethinking tourism for social and ecological justice Socialising tourism: rethinking tourism for social and ecological justice , edited by Freya Hig8
Restraints and enablers of green initiative-taking among hospitality employees: a mixed-methods approach8
I am not a typical flyer’ : narratives about the justified or excessive character of international flights in a highly mobile society8
The slow road to sustainable tourism: an interspecies perspective on decent work8
Exploring how perceived tourism impacts evolve over time (2009–2019) in an era of uncertainty: economic crisis, host-guest interactions, and Airbnb8
The contribution of economics to sustainable tourism research7
Are GreenLeaders also performance leaders? An econometric analysis of TripAdvisor hotel certification of GreenLeaders7
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities7
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty7
Rural tourism and evolving identities of Chinese communities in forested areas7
The limited influence of climate norms on leisure air travel7
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices7
The tourism business operator as a moral gatekeeper – the relational work of recreational hunting in Sweden7
The socio-economic impact of regional tourism: an occupation-based modelling perspective from Sweden7
Air travel and persuasive climate communications7
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector7
I am not unsustainable; I am on holiday! ” moral disengagement and the holiday mindset of young travellers during a cruise7
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland7
Platform empowerment: Facebook’s role in facilitating female micro-entrepreneurship in tourism7
Climate change and pro-sustainable behaviors: application of nudge theory6
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?6
Tourism, the SDGs and partnerships6
Understanding the host heterogeneity in religious destination: a multigroup analysis of distance perceptions and emotional solidarity6
Collective actions and crisis adaptation of a rural tourism community6
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network6
A review of social entrepreneurship research in tourism: knowledge map, operational experiences, and roadmaps6
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste6
The transferability of passion: how green influencers inspire tourists’ green initiative support6
Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: co-creating tour guide experiences in Leeds, England6
Social norms and tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors: Do ethical evaluation and Chinese cultural values matter?6
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents6
Ritualized host-tourist interaction and storytelling intentions: the roles of sense of belonging and group size6
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management6
Lowering the harm of tourist activities: a systematic literature review on nudges6
Measuring sustainability and competitiveness of tourism destinations with data envelopment analysis6
Tourism, global crises and justice: rethinking, redefining and reorienting tourism futures5
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective5
Gen Z and the flight shame movement: examining the intersection of emotions, biospheric values, and environmental travel behaviour in an Eastern society5
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan5
Visitors’ willingness to pay for ecosystem conservation in Grenada5
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays5
The effect of destination source credibility on tourist environmentally responsible behavior: an application of stimulus-organism-response theory5
Impacts of tourism on support for conservation, local livelihoods, and community resilience around Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya5
Transformative travel and external activism: framing external activism outcomes within the travelers’ discourse of perceived transformation5
Indigenous residents, tourism knowledge exchange and situated perceptions of tourism5
Co-learning through participatory evaluation: an example using Theory of Change in a large-scale EU-funded tourism intervention5
Role of corporate sustainability disclosures in moderating the impact of country-level uncertainties on tourism sector firms’ risk5
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective5
The Dolphins: poetry in studying ethical tourism and sustainability5
The utilisation of protected area visitor research: a conceptual framework5
Tourism and climate change in Africa: informing sector responses5
Green rewards vs. non-green rewards? The impact of hotel marketing incentives on guests’ green consumption intentions5
Internal corporate social responsibility and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating roles of job satisfaction, work-family facilitation, life satisfaction, and the modera5
The effect of resident-tourist interaction quality on destination image and loyalty5
A worldwide tourism-extended Environmental Kuznets Curve. New approaches in a comparative analysis5
Can the subaltern speak? Contradictions in trophy hunting and wildlife conservation trajectory in Botswana5
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction5
A choice experiment economic valuation of cultural heritage tourism ecosystems5
Behaviour change interventions to facilitate forest trail users’ biosecurity compliance5
The sustainable development goals: the contribution of tourism volunteering5
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