OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 14. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	184
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	155
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	131
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	118
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	105
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	95
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	82
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	79
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	62
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	61
Correction	61
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	60
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	58
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	56
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	55
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	54
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance	50
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	49
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	48
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	47
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	46
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	46
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	44
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	44
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	40

Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	40
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	39
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	39
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland	39
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	38
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	38
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	37
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	37
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	36
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	35
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	35
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	34
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	34
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	34
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	33
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	33
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	32
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	30
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	30
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	29
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	29
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	28
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	28
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	28
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	28
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	27
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	25
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	25
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	24
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators	24
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	24
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	24
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	23
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	23
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	23
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	23
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	23
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	22
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	22
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	22
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	21
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	21
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	21
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	21
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	21
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	20
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	20
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	20
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	20
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	20

Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	20
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	20
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	20
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	20
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark	19
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	19
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints	19
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	19
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	19
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	19
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	18
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	18
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector	18
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	18
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	17
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	17
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	17
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	17
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	16
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	16
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	16
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	16
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism	16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	16
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	16
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	16
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	16
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	16
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	16
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	15
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	15
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	15
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	15
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	15
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews	14
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	14