OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sustainable Tourism is 15. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of social norms on sustainable consumption behaviors: the unique ethos of renaissance festivals as a moderator of sustainability	164
Guiding pro-environmental behaviour: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioural interventions on sustainable food choices in hospitality	122
Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria	118
Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities	90
Environmental habitus of chefs and food waste management in hospitality operations	88
Understanding drivers and barriers affecting tourists’ engagement in digitally mediated pro-sustainability boycotts	85
The role of tourism in boosting circular transition: a measurement system based on a participatory approach	74
How does negative destination publicity influence residents’ shame and quality of life? The moderating role of perceived destination resilience	72
Diaspora’s intuitive role as cultural ambassador: toward a new cultural sustainability perspective	72
Tourist emotional change and social media coping – evidence from interactions between tourists and host children in impoverished destinations	60
Correction	59
Beauty and tourists’ sustainable behaviour in rural tourism: a self-transcendent emotions perspective	57
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences	55
The design of an eco-tax on tourism waste for sustainable destinations, based on environmental efficiency and spatial dependence	53
Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry	53
Evaluating the effects of hotel location on the adoption of green management strategies and hotel performance	52
Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda	52
Conceptualizing nature-based science tourism: a case study of Seili Island, Finland	51
DEI management and firm performance in the hospitality industry: the moderating role of country-level DEI climate	50
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?	49
A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management	46
Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship	45
Aviation big data-driven tourism carbon efficiency evaluation: evidence from China	44
The effect of destination brand love on environmentally responsible behavior: A comparison between tourists and residents	44
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities	44

Visitors’ values and perceptions of seal watching management in Northwestern Iceland	42
Relational antecedents of sustainability orientation in hospitality and tourism firms: the mediating role of absorptive capacity	42
Decarbonizing business travel: a qualitative exploration of the (mis-)alignment between knowledge organizations’ climate strategies and travel practices	42
Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia	41
From Overtourism to Sustainability Governance: A New Tourism Era	41
Exploring psychological mechanisms behind tourists’ sustainable behaviours at homestays	39
Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications	38
Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government	36
Exploring the role of nested institutions in community-based tourism development: Two case studies from China’s Tibetan pastoral region	35
Book review: quantitative sustainability: interdisciplinary research for sustainable development goals	35
Pacific peoples and the pandemic: exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities	35
Residents’ citizenship behavior between collectivism and individualism: the roles of COVID-19 recurrence risk and length of residency	34
Tourism geopolitics: assemblages of infrastructure, affect, and imagination *Tourism Geopolitics: Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination*	34
Measuring priorities of sustainable post-pandemic tourism policy factors using novel fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach	34
Rethinking food waste: lessons from best practice	34
Minimizing the sustainability knowledge-practice gap through creating shared value: The case of small accommodation firms	34
Effects of perceived benefits and concerns misfit on residents’ destination citizenship behaviors: a moderating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 recurrence	33
How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?	33
Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism	33
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest	33
Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research	32
The effect of self-conscious emotions of guilt and regret on consumers’ intentions to reduce food waste	32
Work and leisure: negative cross-contextual spillover of individuals’ pro-environmental behaviours from workplace to hotel	31
The Potential of Toxic Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country	31
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games	31
Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change?	30
Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis	30
Interaction between sustainability practices and the mediating role of hotel performance	30
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry	30
Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia	29
Co-opting overtourism: tourism stakeholders’ use of the perceptions of overtourism in their power struggles	29
Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study	29
How does destination psychological ownership affect tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis	28
How use of knowledge sources influences eco-innovation in the tourism sector through product innovation and/or process innovation	28
Why local residents support sustainable tourism development?	28
Zero waste solutions in hospitality: technology alignment and agile management practices for responsible consumption and production of food	28
On all fronts: how to end aviation exceptionalism	27
Resistance and power dynamics in tourist destinations: a study of Mallorca’s anti-touristification protests through Bourdieu’s theory of practice	27
From nature experience to visitors’ pro-environmental behavior: the role of perceived restorativeness and well-being	26
How does the cuteness of persuasive communication about sustainable tourism shape tourists’ environmentally responsible behavioral intentions?	26
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma	26
Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy	26
Benefits of policy actor embeddedness for sustainable tourism indicators’ design: the case of Andalusia	25
Restoring hope and optimism through staycation programs: an application of psychological capital theory	25
Coping with precarity in the tourism performing arts industry: a case study of China’s Wa entertainers	25
Indigenous women’s approaches to tourism planning: lessons from Ecuador	25
Gen Z – pioneers or paradox in sustainable tourism?	25
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism	24
The impact of culture on small tourism businesses’ access to finance: the moderating role of gender inequality	23
Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices	23

Intelligent automation for sustainable tourism: a systematic review	23
Travel fear and immunity certificates: a two-stakeholder perspective	21
“Ontological shocks”: new transformations for sustainability through psychedelic tourism	21
The “untouched” frontier: an unsustainable imaginary in the anthropocene	21
The purpose of a sustainable tourism journal	20
Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers	20
Perceptions of climate change risk and sustainable adaptations in the Swedish ski industry	20
A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice	20
Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city	20
Developing dynamic capabilities for community collaboration and tourism product innovation in response to crisis: Nepal and COVID-19	20
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’	20
Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics	19
A change would do you good: advances in research impact in sustainable tourism and some ‘home truths’ for the sector	19
Air travel and persuasive climate communications	19
Articulating a developmental transformation through forest-based tourism: a process perspective	19
Tourist ESG engagement behaviors: conceptualization, scale development, and nomological Network	18
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty	18
Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective	18
‘We shall retaliate’: responses to resident criticism on compatriot tourist misbehavior	18
Inbound tourism and income inequality: the role of banking sector development	18
Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan	17
The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities	17
How tourists’ negative and positive emotions motivate their intentions to reduce food waste	17
Women empowerment in peer-to-peer accommodation settings: perspectives of female Airbnb hosts	16
Advancing sustainable development goals through interdisciplinarity in sustainable tourism research	16
Exploring environmental concerns on digital platforms through big data: the effect of online consumers’ environmental discourse on online review ratings	16
Present and future climate potentials for several outdoor tourism activities in Spain	16
To understand or to touch? Evoking tourists’ cultural preservation commitment through heritage tourism interpretation	16
Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction	16
Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories	15
Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?	15
How to Get Published in the Best Tourism Journals	15
Gender and tourism sustainability	15
Letter to editor: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers	15
Do crises affect the sustainability of the economic effects of tourism? A case study of Hong Kong	15
Generation Z and pro-sustainable tourism behaviors: internal and external drivers	15
What do tourism and hospitality companies convey about labor union relations in their CSR reports? A conceptual model and empirical findings	15
Activating socio-cultural values for sustainable tourism development in natural protected areas	15
Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface	15