OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 13. 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
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
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
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
Environmental reporting and tourism development in China	47
Responses to vignettes as a methodology to reveal hoteliers’ sustainability practices, knowledge and competencies	47
Involving stakeholders in the evaluation of the sustainability of a tourist destination: a novel comprehensive approach	46
The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans	44
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

Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	43
Consumer behaviours in social enterprises: empathy with employees with disabilities and intention to revisit the social restaurant	41
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism	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
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	37
Transforming rural communities through tourism development: an examination of empowerment and disempowerment processes	37
A stakeholder perspective on contested urban heritage and heritage tourism	36
National destination pledges as innovative visitor management tools – social marketing for behaviour change in tourism	36
Tourism governance and enabling drivers for intensifying climate action	35
Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages	35
(Don’t) be ashamed during take-off and landing: negotiations of flight shame in the Norwegian public debate	34
Do tourists value responsible sustainability in whale-watching tourism? Exploring sustainability and consumption preferences	34
Assessing the tourism sustainability of EU regions at the NUTS-2 level with a composite and regionalised indicator	33
A safe space for local knowledge sharing in sustainable tourism: an organisational justice perspective	33
Guest benefits of hedonic value and perceived community value drive hotel CSR participation	33
The effect of awe on tourists’ responsible behavioral intention in a mountainous religious tourism destination: evidence from China	32
Tourism and social marketing: an integrative review	31
Exploring inclusivity perceptions among residents: insights from rural tourism destinations	31
Understanding the acceptance of carbon offset programs among hospitality consumers: an application of the extended parallel process model	29
Scratching beneath the surface: a systems thinking approach for uncovering hidden dynamics impacting tourism and poaching	29
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	29
Correction	29
Modelling a smart tech user journey to decarbonise tourist accommodation	29
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	28
How does experienced compassion influence community citizenship behaviour? The roles of psychological contracts and regulatory focus	28
Intermediary organizations as supporters of residents’ innovativeness and empowerment in community-based tourism	28
The role of frame resonance in resistance to touristification: how Amsterdam came to ban tourist shops from its inner city	28
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 actions	27
Restoring hope and optimism through staycation programs: an application of psychological capital theory	27
Understanding spectator sustainable transportation intentions in international sport tourism events	27
How does digital media engagement influence sustainability-driven political consumerism among Gen Z tourists?	27
Impact of awe on sustainable tourism consumption decisions: roles of diminished self-importance and regulatory focus	26
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	26
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 approach	26
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	26
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 susta	25
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	25
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: the relationships of meaningfulness and emotions in protected areas	25
Measuring sustainable tourism: a state of the art review of sustainable tourism indicators	25
Correction	25
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	24
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	24
Evidence-informed decision-making in sustainable tourism: from research to action	24
Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism	24
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing	24
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	23
Reducing unethical pro-organizational behavior in the hospitality sector through socially responsible human resource practices and responsible leadership	22

Destinations’ environmental orientation: a symbolic cluster analysis based on hotel employees’ environmental knowledge, awareness, and concern	22
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	21
Consumers’ intention to visit green hotels – a goal-framing theory perspective	21
Tourism development discourse dynamics in a context of conflicts between mining and nature conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado Hotspot	21
Short-term emission reductions in leisure and business air travel: assessment of taxation, regulations, sustainable aviation fuels and personal intentions	21
The historical structuring of the U.S. tourism workforce: a critical review	21
Unveiling the hidden carbon footprint of the tourism industry: a comprehensive analysis and policy implications	20
Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities: a three-dimensional approach	20
Green influencer marketing: conceptualization, scale development, and validation: an application to tourism products	20
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	20
The carbon footprint of regional tourism trips: insights from environmentally extended regional input output analysis	20
Healing mechanism of rural tourism on urban employee unhappiness: a logotherapy theory perspective	20
Conceptualizing nature-based science tourism: a case study of Seili Island, Finland	20
Living in theWakeof Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism	19
The poor on the road: qiongyou as a collective resistance and justice tourism	19
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	18
Seeking a deeper level of responsibility for inclusive (eco)tourism duty and the pinnacle of practice	18
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	18
Influence analysis of interpretation services on ecotourism behavior for wildlife tourists	18
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	18
Wildlife tourism and consumption	18
Correction	18
Membership duration of tourism firms in the United Nations Global Compact Programme	17
The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations	17
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences	17
Exploring travelers’ willingness to pay for green hotels in the digital era	17
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	17
How does social entrepreneurship achieve sustainable development goals in rural tourism destinations? The role of legitimacy and social capital	16
Strategies in sustainable tourism, economic growth & clean energy Strategies in sustainable tourism, economic growth & clean energy , edited by D. Balsalobre-Lor	16
Small island developing states, tourism and climate change	16
Promoting pro-environmental behaviour spillover through chatbots	16
Exploring Chinese sustainable tourism: a 25-year perspective	15
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 industry	15
Children and overtourism: a cognitive neuroscience experiment to reflect on exposure and behavioural consequences	15
Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism	15
Expanding protected areas: a case for repairing intergenerational social capital rather than taking the path of least resistance	15
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	14
Will tourists’ pro-environmental behavior influence their well-being? An examination from the perspective of warm glow theory	14
How does destination social responsibility impact residents’ quality of life? The mechanisms of disclosure entity, communal relationship, and perceived warmth	14
Sustainability knowledge management and organisational learning in tourism: current approaches and areas for future development	14
Platform-mediated tourism: social justice and urban governance before and during Covid-19	14
Decent work and tourism workers in the age of intelligent automation and digital surveillance	13
Exploring the role of women entrepreneurs in revitalizing historic Nazareth	13
Last chance for wildlife: making tourism count for conservation	13
Understanding sensescapes and restorative effects of nature-based destinations: a mixed-methods approach	13
Catching feelings in nature: experiential insights about access and inclusion in parks, protected and other conserved areas	13
Effects of behavioral intention and dynamic capabilities on circular economy adoption and performance of tourism SMEs	13
Resident perceptions and responses to tourism: individual vs community level impacts	13