OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 16. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	205
Videography-facilitated nature-based mindfulness at natural destinations	161
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	141
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	122
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	97
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	93
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	87
From inertia to action: how humorous signs nudge tourists toward sustainability	85
Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective	85
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	76
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	73
Weather, climate change and business models: perspectives on future sustainability from heritage tourism organisations	70
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	68
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	65
Correction	61
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	59
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	56
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	54
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	52
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	52
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	52
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	49
Loyalty program mobility beliefs and carbon offset	47
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	46
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	46

Building sustainable tourism communities: a blueprint for the future	45
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	41
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	40
Promoting sustainability in hotels: do guests commit and save water?	40
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	38
From “Sacred Spaces” to “Selfie Spots”: how social media sharing motivations transform tourist-destination relationships	36
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	35
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	35
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	34
How does travel pace shape pro-environmental behavior? A conservation of resources perspective	34
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	34
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	34
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	33
Visualizing sustainability: how landscape diversity shapes crowding tolerance on urban aerial trails	33
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	33
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	32
Being a champion for sustainability: enhancing organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment through positive group perception in the hotel industry	31
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	31
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	31
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	30
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	30
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	29
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	29
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	28
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	28
Does climate-proofing a city boost its tourism? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	28
Translating sustainability into performance: the role of digital transformation and CEO gender in small and medium-sized hotels	27
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	27
Beyond economic benefits: an integrated model of how and when destination social responsibility drives residents’ brand-building behaviors	27
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	27
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	26
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	26
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	26
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	26
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	26
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	26
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	26
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	25
From wildlife to wanderlust: celebrity animals as travel motivators	25
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	25
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	25
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	24
From intention to action: a longitudinal study of pro-environmental behavior change through nature-based sporting events	24
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	24
From pity to allyship: reimagining inclusive tourism through blind-led sensory experiences	24
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	22
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	22
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	22
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	22
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	22

The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	21
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	21
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	21
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	21
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	21
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	21
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	20
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events	20
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	20
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	19
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	19
Tourism dependency and extreme weather: developing tourism extreme weather exposure indices for Denmark	19
Wage stagnation in leisure and hospitality during the cost-of-living crisis: the role of labor segmentation, cost burden, and structural constraints	19
Ethnography in/for sustainable tourism: tensions, challenges and opportunities	19
Grounding through objects: how phygital visitations shape visitor response	19
Glocalising circular waste governance in tourism: legitimacy pathways from coastal destinations	19
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	19
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	18
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	18
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	18
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	18
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	18
Tourism and housing prices: a meta-analysis	18
Shared farmlands as therapeutic spaces: exploring restorative experience, identity, attachment, and co-creation in rural tourism	18
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	18
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	18
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	17
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	17
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	17
Strategic responses to sustainability certification under regulatory uncertainty: a real-options perspective	17
Snowmaking in Austria: resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions	17
The uncertain waves: tourism, immigration, and gendered labor market dynamics	17
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	17
High-resolution mapping of tourism carbon footprint and its driving factors	17
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	17
Will tourists avoid visiting destinations with heritage destruction?	16
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	16
Beyond green promises: sustainability and the limits of employer attraction for Gen Z in tourism and hospitality	16
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	16
Do not touch: understanding travelers’ implicit attitudes toward close wildlife interactions and the power of animal-welfare warning messages	16
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	16
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	16
Exploring happiness in nature-based travel: a field-experimental design utilizing heart rate variability, subjective measures, and qualitative interviews	16
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	16