OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Using active learning strategies on travel and tourism higher education programmes in Ireland	98
Integration of emerging technologies in tourism and hospitality curriculum: An international perspective	74
Exploring the role of a serious game in developing competencies in higher tourism education	56
Whence legitimate peripheral participation? De-trivializing the social dynamics around Chinese students' doctoral research in the West	50
The behavior model of psychological contract between sports teachers and undergraduate students in China	44
Authentic assessment and digital literacy in sport marketing	41
Fostering a culture of care for tourism graduate students in the academy	40
Personality is no stranger to occupational choice among hospitality graduates	39
The relationship between career adaptability, hope, resilience, and life satisfaction for hospitality students in times of Covid-19	39
Statistical learning in sports education: A case study on improving quantitative analysis skills through project-based learning	36
University and industry cooperation from the perspective of hotel managers: The case of Türkiye	35
Hospitality and tourism management student satisfaction with their majors and career readiness amid the COVID-19 pandemic	33
The power of engaged reflection in fostering new insights on diversity, equity and inclusion	32
International virtual sport coaching exchange: A mechanism for exploring pre-professional coaches’ interests and issues	30
Feminism and sports business management higher education	29
Using synchronous hybrid pedagogy to nurture a community of inquiry: Insights from a tourism Master's programme	28
Hospitality students at the online classes during COVID-19 – How personality affects experience?	25
The roles of cognitive benefits and technology usage in predicting students’ sustainable behavioural intentions: The moderating roles of data literacy and marketing strategy	24
Editorial Board	23
Presenting the case for implementing entrustable professional activities (EPA) in Sport and Exercise Sciences teaching: Application and alignment to develop student competencies	22
Examining the core competencies for success in the hotel industry: The case of Cyprus	22
Realtime online courses mutated amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical study in hospitality program	21
Sport students’ experiences of teaching and learning in the United Kingdom: A comparison between further and higher education settings	20
A virtual versus blended learning approach to higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experiences of a sport and exercise science student cohort	20
Exposure to netflix enhances listening effort and learning motivation among MICE learners	20

Factors affecting hotel interns’ satisfaction with internship experience and career intention in China	20
Tour guiding practice and feedback in guide education: Lessons from London for Japan	19
Small change, big impact: The influence of reframing in a sport and globalization course on students’ perspectives regarding diversity and equity in society	18
Sustainability courses in hospitality and tourism higher education: Perspectives from industry practitioners and students	17
Navigating external referencing through COVID-19 disruptions - Teaching tourism policy and planning in Australia and China	17
Exploring antecedents of social loafing in students’ group work: A mixed-methods approach	17
Experiential learning from the perspective of outdoor education leaders	16
What Shapes E-Learning Effectiveness among Tourism Education Students? An Empirical Assessment during COVID19	16
A case study of sustainable hospitality education relating to food waste from the perspective of transformative learning theory	16
Pushed or pulled? A qualitative analysis of university sport management faculty attrition in the United States due to a lack of a sense of belonging	16
Intergenerational service learning outcomes for event management undergraduates involved in organizing Pickleball events	16
University students’ perception to online class delivery methods during the COVID-19 pandemic: A focus on hospitality education in Korea and Malaysia	15
Learning experiences in the culinary classroom: Identifying barriers and enablers in the practical teaching-learning process in gastronomy	14
“It feels like a job …” Understanding commuter students: Motivations, engagement, and learning experiences	14
TikTok as a learning tool in higher education: Validation of a scale	13
A Facebook-mediated blended learning model is associated with enhanced knowledge retention in sports science undergraduates	13
Enhancing student experience and career knowledge through alumni engagement: Case study of a sport and exercise science course	13
A bibliometric study on higher tourism education and curriculum	12
International graduate students’ perspectives on sense of belonging in leisure	12
Graduate employability and higher education’s contributions to human resource development in sport business before and after COVID-19	12
Enhancing university student employability through practical experiential learning in the sport industry: An industry-academia cooperation case from Taiwan	12
The impact of student attendance on assessment specific performance in sport degree programs	12
Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis	11
Undergraduate sport sciences students’ attitudes towards statistics: A gender perspective	11
Socialising students for Philosophic Practice? An analysis of learning outcomes in tourism taught Master's programmes	10
The internship experience: Students’ self-evaluations of soft skill development during hospitality internships	10
Entry-level professional competencies and skills in tourism – The case of Slovakia	10
What drives green experiential outcomes in tourism higher education?	9
The impacts of school support and hotel support on hotel interns’ career growth: The mediation of role clarity and occupational identification	9
Editorial Board	9
The importance of context: How university entrepreneurial climates enhances entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality graduates	9
Career beliefs, self-efficacy and VUCA skills: A study among generation Z female students of tourism and hospitality	9
Student perspectives of event design: Learning and transformation using the #EventCanvas methodology	8
Understanding academic dishonesty during the thesis-writing process: A case study of students majoring in tourism and hospitality	8
Implementation of actions by higher education institutions to stimulate sport entrepreneurship.	8
It's more than just internships, placements, and guest lecturers: Partnership pedagogy in practice	8
Artificial intelligence in sport management education: Playing the AI game with ChatGPT	8
Living qualitatively: Getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again	8
To stay or not to stay? The causal effect of interns’ career intention on enhanced employability and retention in the hospitality and tourism industry	8
The impact of using virtual reality applications on academic success and retention in tour guding education	7
Grab the Mic: Connecting theory and practice within an undergraduate sport communication course	7
“You've already, kind of, got the wheels moving a little bit”; students' value of pre-arrival support in transitioning into higher education	7
Can we buffer them? Supporting healthy levels of stress and anxiety in first year international students	7
Big data meets sustainable marketing: A new integrated curriculum for hospitality education	7
A comprehensive science mapping of tourism and hospitality research: Tribes, territories and networks	7
Teaching Spoken English for hospitality management major in China	6
Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?	6
Professional competencies of culinary in hospitality education based on the food waste avoidance perspective	6
ChatGPT and learning outcomes in tourism education: The role of digital literacy and individualized learning	6
There is more to life than sport: Debating popular culture to develop critical thinking skills	6

Implementing community-based tourism (CBT): Lessons learnt and implications by involving students in a CBT project in Laelae Island, Indonesia	6
“It should have been named women's rights … I was displeased”: Teaching about gender ideology in the sport sociology classroom	6
How technology facilitates tourism education in COVID-19:case study of nankai University	6
A model to establish a zero food waste competence scale for hospitality students	6
A Systematic Review of hospitality and tourism management students’ career intentions	6
Learning tourism and hospitality subjects with massive open online courses (MOOCs): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study	6
Why you leave and what can we do? The roles of job burnout and vocational skill in hotel internships	6
Teaching generic skill sets to sport undergraduates to increase their employability and promote smooth college-to-work transition	6
Exploring critical issues in event planning through a group research and jigsaw presentation project	6
Are higher education institutions preparing future tourism professionals for tourism for all? An overview from Portuguese higher education tourism programmes	6
Developing a zero-proof beverage course: Insights from industry professionals, educators, and students	6
The impact of perceived education quality on tourism and hospitality students’ career choice: The mediating effects of academic self-efficacy	5
Maximizing study abroad learning outcomes through cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence development	5
Trend and visualizing of historical tourism in education research during last twenty years: A bibliometric review and analysis	5
From the classroom to the Living Lab for developing competencies in tourism higher education	5
The mediating role of future career anxiety in the effect of academic satisfaction on brain-drain among tourism & hospitality students: Moderator effect of fear of natural disasters	5
Small College Sport Management Students: A Population & Performance Case Study	5
Incorporating the student voice in undergraduate tourism curriculum in China	5
Inclusion, infusion, or confusion: Exploring how faculty address adaptive sport and recreation in the sport management classroom	5
Editorial Board	5
Tourism vocational education: Relations of input and output	4
Bridging the gap: Integrating hotel asset management and real estate finance in undergraduate hospitality education	4
Curriculum evaluation of tourism undergraduate programs in Turkey: A CIPP model-based framework	4
Online learning in higher education in the UK: Exploring the experiences of sports students and staff	4
Integrating STEM interdisciplinary design into hospitality education to investigate students’ learning effectiveness: Taking a biscuit-baking activity with problem-based learning	4
ChatGPT in practice: Increasing event planning efficiency through artificial intelligence	4
Conceptualization of diversity and inclusion: Tensions and contradictions in the sport management classroom	4
A tale of two classes: Tourism students’ cognitive loads and learning outcomes in face-to-face and online classes	4
Sport law in U.S. undergraduate sport management programs: What should we be teaching?	4
Travel Professors: A YouTube channel about tourism education & research	4
TikTok for learning through movement, dramatization, and music: Insights for higher education applications in sport sciences	4
A deep introspection into the role of ChatGPT for transforming hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education	3
Evaluation of entrustable professional activities and competency assessment in sport and exercise sciences in higher education: Student perceptions of the impact on learning	3
Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation	3
A Comparative Analysis on the Career Perceptions of Tourism Management Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The effect of professional expectations of tour guiding students on their professional motivation	3
Antecedents and outcomes of educational travel in higher education	3
HOW the tourism & hospitality lecturers coped with the transition to online teaching due to COVID-19: An assessment of stressors, negative sentiments & coping strategies	3
Students’ perception of exercise and sport science undergraduate curriculum in Australia	3
How internship environmental factors affect students’ career intentions in the hotel industry through the reflective thinking processes	3
Determinants of hospitality students' perceived learning during COVID 19 pandemic: Role of interactions and self-efficacy	3
Using goal-setting theory and expectancy theory to understand career goal implementation in the hospitality industry	3
Which combination of teaching methods lead to high level of effectiveness in offline-online mixed teaching? A configuration analysis based on fsQCA	3
Engaging students through authentic learning: Connecting with international tourism partners	3
Perceived value within an international hospitality learning environment: Antecedents and outcomes	3
The two-way perspective of tourism undergraduates towards (post-)viral world: The future of tourism, and vocational development and career	3
Student's perceptions of sharing platforms and digital learning for sustainable behaviour and value changes	3
A possible transformation of tourism education: A chaos theory perspective	3
Some specifics of Czech recreation and leisure studies’ students: Personality types based on MBTI	3
Implementation of the gradual release of responsibility informed curriculum and pedagogy for teaching programming: Action research based on a course for sport science students	3