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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	174
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	134
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	124
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	105
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	97
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	94
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	82
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	81
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	78
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	67
Correction	59
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	59
Managerial green leadership behavior and its impact on employee environmental citizenship behavior: the mediating role of green intellectual capital in the hospitality sector	57
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance	57
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	56
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	54
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	53
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	51
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	51
Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland	50
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	49
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	48
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	44
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	44

The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	44
Journeys of sacredness: the role of symbolism in nature-based religious destinations	43
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	42
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	41
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	39
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	38
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	38
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	37
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	37
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	36
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	35
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	34
Sustainable placemaking: local guides’ motivations for omitting conflict memories in Kibera’s slum tourism	34
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
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	33
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	33
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	33
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	32
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	31
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	31
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	31
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	31
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	30
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	29
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	29
Cross-border tourism as an agent of environmental peacebuilding	29
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	28
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	28
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	28
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	28
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	27
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	26
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	26
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	25
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	25
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	25
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	25
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	25
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	24
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	23
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	23
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	22
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	22
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	22
Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	22
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	20
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	20
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	20
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	20

Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	20
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	20
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	20
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	19
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	19
Green practices, golden stars: how hotel ratings shape guests’ pro-environmental behavior	19
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	19
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	19
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	18
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	18
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’	18
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	18
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	17
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	17
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	17
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	16
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	16
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	16
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector	16
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	16
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	16
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	16
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	15
Let residents interpret the artwork: connecting art and local communities by sharing local knowledge at rural art festivals	15
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	15
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	15
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	15
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	15
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	15
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	15
A study of how LGBTQ tourists’ perceptions of residents’ feelings about them affect their revisit intentions: an emotional solidarity perspective	14
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals	14
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	14
Exploring the pro-environmental behavioral intention of Generation Z in the tourism context: the role of injunctive social norms and personal norms	14
Advancing sustainable development goals through interdisciplinarity in sustainable tourism research	14
Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males	14
‘ Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’ : workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations	14
Indigenous knowledge systems and socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development: insights from Indigenous Newars of Nepal	14
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	14
Self-construal, moral disengagement, and unethical behavior in peer-to-peer accommodation: the moderating role of perceived consumption liquidity	14
“She” power: role transition and self-empowerment of women in rural tourism	14
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers	14