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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A bibliometric study on higher tourism education and curriculum	89
Tourism education in Spain's secondary schools: The curriculums' perspective	69
TikTok for developing learning motivation and oral proficiency in MICE learners	56
Research on literacy in tourism: A review and future research agenda	48
Contemplative pedagogy and decentering whiteness in sport management education	40
How internship environmental factors affect students’ career intentions in the hotel industry through the reflective thinking processes	38
Retrospective regret in hospitality graduates about their misvaluation of finance track courses during study	36
Evaluation of entrustable professional activities and competency assessment in sport and exercise sciences in higher education: Student perceptions of the impact on learning	35
Stigmatized female moral rebels in hospitality/tourism	35
“It should have been named women's rights … I was displeased”: Teaching about gender ideology in the sport sociology classroom	31
Teaching Spoken English for hospitality management major in China	30
Whence legitimate peripheral participation? De-trivializing the social dynamics around Chinese students' doctoral research in the West	28
How technology facilitates tourism education in COVID-19:case study of nankai University	26
The two-way perspective of tourism undergraduates towards (post-)viral world: The future of tourism, and vocational development and career	24
Conceptualization of diversity and inclusion: Tensions and contradictions in the sport management classroom	24
Why you leave and what can we do? The roles of job burnout and vocational skill in hotel internships	22
Gamification and deep learning approaches in higher education	22
Perceived value within an international hospitality learning environment: Antecedents and outcomes	22
Exploring the role of a serious game in developing competencies in higher tourism education	22
International graduate students’ perspectives on sense of belonging in leisure	20
Designing internships for development: A design-based research study with FanGate Solutions	18
Institutional and sport management educators' implementation of reading list diversity: A congruence analysis	18
Pivotal roles of university leader dominance and entrepreneurial bricolage between social responsibility and sustainable knowledge sharing	18
“It feels like a job …” Understanding commuter students: Motivations, engagement, and learning experiences	17
Enhancing university student employability through practical experiential learning in the sport industry: An industry-academia cooperation case from Taiwan	16

Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?	16
Teaching generic skill sets to sport undergraduates to increase their employability and promote smooth college-to-work transition	15
Learning experiences in the culinary classroom: Identifying barriers and enablers in the practical teaching-learning process in gastronomy	15
Using active learning strategies on travel and tourism higher education programmes in Ireland	15
TikTok for learning through movement, dramatization, and music: Insights for higher education applications in sport sciences	15
Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis	14
“What motivates me?” Motivation to conduct research of academics in teaching-oriented universities in China	14
A Comparative Analysis on the Career Perceptions of Tourism Management Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Research-based learning (RBL): Added-value in tourism education	14
Hospitality and tourism management student satisfaction with their majors and career readiness amid the COVID-19 pandemic	13
How did the COVID-19 pandemic influence students’ career expectations in the hotel and tourism industry?	13
The impact of student attendance on assessment specific performance in sport degree programs	13
Student's perceptions of sharing platforms and digital learning for sustainable behaviour and value changes	12
Breaking down the silos: Student experience of transformative learning through interdisciplinary project-based learning (IPBL)	12
Antecedents of American hospitality students’ intercultural communication apprehension: Effect of ethnocentrism, cultural intelligence and core self-evaluations	12
Repositioning the value of sociology for students studying sport in post-92 higher education institutions	11
A model to establish a zero food waste competence scale for hospitality students	11
Caring for our graduate academy	11
Design thinking in hospitality education: Lessons learned and future opportunities	10
Statistical learning in sports education: A case study on improving quantitative analysis skills through project-based learning	10
University and industry cooperation from the perspective of hotel managers: The case of Türkiye	9
Undergraduate sport sciences students’ attitudes towards statistics: A gender perspective	9
What can be learned from the country's first university owned brewery and brewpub? A case study	9
A personal learning environment (PLE) approach to mobile teaching and learning on a short-term study abroad	8
Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation	8
Linking hospitality and tourism students’ internship satisfaction to career decision self-efficacy: A moderated-mediation analysis involving career development constructs	8
Determinants of hospitality students' perceived learning during COVID 19 pandemic: Role of interactions and self-efficacy	8
A qualitative analysis of undergraduate sport management student skill and awareness development at an international sports event	8
The behavior model of psychological contract between sports teachers and undergraduate students in China	8
Exploring Chinese students’ issues and concerns of studying abroad amid COVID-19 pandemic: an actor-network perspective	7
Learning innovative entrepreneurship: Developing an influential curriculum for undergraduate hospitality students	7
Entrepreneurial intention of sports students in the higher education context - Can gender make a difference?	7
Graduate employability and higher education’s contributions to human resource development in sport business before and after COVID-19	7
The relationship between career adaptability, hope, resilience, and life satisfaction for hospitality students in times of Covid-19	7
Personality is no stranger to occupational choice among hospitality graduates	7
A deep introspection into the role of ChatGPT for transforming hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education	7
Sport sales managers’ perceptions of learning through experiential sales projects	7
Determining the attributes that influence students’ online learning satisfaction during COVID-19 pandemic	7
Does background matter? Analysis of the influence of sex, socioeconomic status and the existence of an entrepreneurial family member as a precursor to entrepreneurship in university students of Sport	7
Hospitality students at the online classes during COVID-19 – How personality affects experience?	6
Identifying the habitual needs of novice strength and conditioning coaches	6
How interdisciplinarity helps knowledge production: Reflections on a doctoral dissertation	6
Using synchronous hybrid pedagogy to nurture a community of inquiry: Insights from a tourism Master's programme	6
Entry-level professional competencies and skills in tourism – The case of Slovakia	6
Socialising students for Philosophic Practice? An analysis of learning outcomes in tourism taught Master's programmes	6
The roles of cognitive benefits and technology usage in predicting students’ sustainable behavioural intentions: The moderating roles of data literacy and marketing strategy	6
Factors influencing Chinese tourism students’ choice of an overseas PhD program	6
Boundary crossing, internships, and the hospitality & tourism talent pipeline	6
Editorial Board	5
The power of engaged reflection in fostering new insights on diversity, equity and inclusion	5

The impact of perceived education quality on tourism and hospitality students’ career choice: The mediating effects of academic self-efficacy	5
Are higher education institutions preparing future tourism professionals for tourism for all? An overview from Portuguese higher education tourism programmes	5
Exploring critical issues in event planning through a group research and jigsaw presentation project	5
A possible transformation of tourism education: A chaos theory perspective	5
Career beliefs, self-efficacy and VUCA skills: A study among generation Z female students of tourism and hospitality	5
The impacts of school support and hotel support on hotel interns’ career growth: The mediation of role clarity and occupational identification	5
A systematic review of literature on hospitality internships	5
Inclusion, infusion, or confusion: Exploring how faculty address adaptive sport and recreation in the sport management classroom	4
A new curriculum evaluation model for gastronomy education in Turkey	4
A Systematic Review of hospitality and tourism management students’ career intentions	4
ChatGPT and learning outcomes in tourism education: The role of digital literacy and individualized learning	4
Does COVID-19 pandemic trigger career anxiety in tourism students? Exploring the role of psychological resilience	4
Which combination of teaching methods lead to high level of effectiveness in offline-online mixed teaching? A configuration analysis based on fsQCA	4
The effect of professional expectations of tour guiding students on their professional motivation	4
Presenting the case for implementing entrustable professional activities (EPA) in Sport and Exercise Sciences teaching: Application and alignment to develop student competencies	4
Using goal-setting theory and expectancy theory to understand career goal implementation in the hospitality industry	4
Industry 4.0 technologies in tourism education: Nurturing students to think with technology	4
To stay or not to stay? The causal effect of interns’ career intention on enhanced employability and retention in the hospitality and tourism industry	4
Investigation into the transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, between new and continuing undergraduate students	3
Small College Sport Management Students: A Population & Performance Case Study	3
Editorial Board	3
Trend and visualizing of historical tourism in education research during last twenty years: A bibliometric review and analysis	3
Student perspectives of event design: Learning and transformation using the #EventCanvas methodology	3
Editorial Board	3
Incorporating the student voice in undergraduate tourism curriculum in China	3
Editorial Board	3
Realtime online courses mutated amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical study in hospitality program	3
Engaging students through authentic learning: Connecting with international tourism partners	3
Context-specific elective coursework and student’s employability development: Application of social cognitive career theory in hospitality education	3