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

Article	Citations
Using active learning strategies on travel and tourism higher education programmes in Ireland	115
Integration of emerging technologies in tourism and hospitality curriculum: An international perspective	61
Exploring the role of a serious game in developing competencies in higher tourism education	54
Whence legitimate peripheral participation? De-trivializing the social dynamics around Chinese students' doctoral research in the West	49
Authentic assessment and digital literacy in sport marketing	45
Fostering a culture of care for tourism graduate students in the academy	44
The relationship between career adaptability, hope, resilience, and life satisfaction for hospitality students in times of Covid-19	41
Statistical learning in sports education: A case study on improving quantitative analysis skills through project-based learning	40
Personality is no stranger to occupational choice among hospitality graduates	40
Hospitality and tourism management student satisfaction with their majors and career readiness amid the COVID-19 pandemic	40
The power of engaged reflection in fostering new insights on diversity, equity and inclusion	36
University and industry cooperation from the perspective of hotel managers: The case of Türkiye	36
Feminism and sports business management higher education	32
International virtual sport coaching exchange: A mechanism for exploring pre-professional coaches’ interests and issues	31
The roles of cognitive benefits and technology usage in predicting students’ sustainable behavioural intentions: The moderating roles of data literacy and marketing strategy	27
Using synchronous hybrid pedagogy to nurture a community of inquiry: Insights from a tourism Master's programme	25
Editorial Board	25
Presenting the case for implementing entrustable professional activities (EPA) in Sport and Exercise Sciences teaching: Application and alignment to develop student competencies	24
Sport students’ experiences of teaching and learning in the United Kingdom: A comparison between further and higher education settings	24
Exposure to netflix enhances listening effort and learning motivation among MICE learners	22
Realtime online courses mutated amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical study in hospitality program	22
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
Tour guiding practice and feedback in guide education: Lessons from London for Japan	19
Navigating external referencing through COVID-19 disruptions - Teaching tourism policy and planning in Australia and China	18
Sustainability courses in hospitality and tourism higher education: Perspectives from industry practitioners and students	18

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	17
Small change, big impact: The influence of reframing in a sport and globalization course on students’ perspectives regarding diversity and equity in society	17
Intergenerational service learning outcomes for event management undergraduates involved in organizing Pickleball events	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
University students’ perception to online class delivery methods during the COVID-19 pandemic: A focus on hospitality education in Korea and Malaysia	15
Experiential learning from the perspective of outdoor education leaders	15
International graduate students’ perspectives on sense of belonging in leisure	14
Learning experiences in the culinary classroom: Identifying barriers and enablers in the practical teaching-learning process in gastronomy	14
A bibliometric study on higher tourism education and curriculum	14
A Facebook-mediated blended learning model is associated with enhanced knowledge retention in sports science undergraduates	13
“It feels like a job …” Understanding commuter students: Motivations, engagement, and learning experiences	13
Enhancing student experience and career knowledge through alumni engagement: Case study of a sport and exercise science course	13
TikTok as a learning tool in higher education: Validation of a scale	12
Undergraduate sport sciences students’ attitudes towards statistics: A gender perspective	11
The impact of student attendance on assessment specific performance in sport degree programs	11
Editorial Board	10
The internship experience: Students’ self-evaluations of soft skill development during hospitality internships	10
Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis	10
Socialising students for Philosophic Practice? An analysis of learning outcomes in tourism taught Master's programmes	10
Career beliefs, self-efficacy and VUCA skills: A study among generation Z female students of tourism and hospitality	10
Entry-level professional competencies and skills in tourism – The case of Slovakia	10
The impacts of school support and hotel support on hotel interns’ career growth: The mediation of role clarity and occupational identification	10
Artificial intelligence in sport management education: Playing the AI game with ChatGPT	9
The importance of context: How university entrepreneurial climates enhances entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality graduates	9
It's more than just internships, placements, and guest lecturers: Partnership pedagogy in practice	9
Implementation of actions by higher education institutions to stimulate sport entrepreneurship.	9
Living qualitatively: Getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again	9
What drives green experiential outcomes in tourism higher education?	9
A comprehensive science mapping of tourism and hospitality research: Tribes, territories and networks	9
Student perspectives of event design: Learning and transformation using the #EventCanvas methodology	9
Grab the Mic: Connecting theory and practice within an undergraduate sport communication course	8
Editorial Board	8
Understanding academic dishonesty during the thesis-writing process: A case study of students majoring in tourism and hospitality	8
“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
“It should have been named women's rights … I was displeased”: Teaching about gender ideology in the sport sociology classroom	7
Learning tourism and hospitality subjects with massive open online courses (MOOCs): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study	7
Developing a zero-proof beverage course: Insights from industry professionals, educators, and students	7
Implementing community-based tourism (CBT): Lessons learnt and implications by involving students in a CBT project in Laelae Island, Indonesia	7
Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?	7
Big data meets sustainable marketing: A new integrated curriculum for hospitality education	7
The impact of using virtual reality applications on academic success and retention in tour guding education	7
Teaching Spoken English for hospitality management major in China	7
How technology facilitates tourism education in COVID-19:case study of nankai University	7
Why you leave and what can we do? The roles of job burnout and vocational skill in hotel internships	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
A Systematic Review of hospitality and tourism management students’ career intentions	6
There is more to life than sport: Debating popular culture to develop critical thinking skills	6

A model to establish a zero food waste competence scale for hospitality students	6
From the classroom to the Living Lab for developing competencies in tourism higher education	6
Inclusion, infusion, or confusion: Exploring how faculty address adaptive sport and recreation in the sport management classroom	6
Teaching generic skill sets to sport undergraduates to increase their employability and promote smooth college-to-work transition	6
Professional competencies of culinary in hospitality education based on the food waste avoidance perspective	6
The impact of perceived education quality on tourism and hospitality students’ career choice: The mediating effects of academic self-efficacy	6
ChatGPT and learning outcomes in tourism education: The role of digital literacy and individualized learning	6
Tourism vocational education: Relations of input and output	5
Bridging the gap: Integrating hotel asset management and real estate finance in undergraduate hospitality education	5
Small College Sport Management Students: A Population & Performance Case Study	5
Incorporating the student voice in undergraduate tourism curriculum in China	5
ChatGPT in practice: Increasing event planning efficiency through artificial intelligence	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
Trend and visualizing of historical tourism in education research during last twenty years: A bibliometric review and analysis	5
Integrating STEM interdisciplinary design into hospitality education to investigate students’ learning effectiveness: Taking a biscuit-baking activity with problem-based learning	5
Maximizing study abroad learning outcomes through cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence development	5
Curriculum evaluation of tourism undergraduate programs in Turkey: A CIPP model-based framework	4
How internship environmental factors affect students’ career intentions in the hotel industry through the reflective thinking processes	4
The two-way perspective of tourism undergraduates towards (post-)viral world: The future of tourism, and vocational development and career	4
Students’ perception of exercise and sport science undergraduate curriculum in Australia	4
Sport law in U.S. undergraduate sport management programs: What should we be teaching?	4
Perceived value within an international hospitality learning environment: Antecedents and outcomes	4
Online learning in higher education in the UK: Exploring the experiences of sports students and staff	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
Evaluation of entrustable professional activities and competency assessment in sport and exercise sciences in higher education: Student perceptions of the impact on learning	4
TikTok for learning through movement, dramatization, and music: Insights for higher education applications in sport sciences	4
Tourism for all. Educating to foster accessible accommodation	4
Some specifics of Czech recreation and leisure studies’ students: Personality types based on MBTI	3
Tourism and hospitality in Brazil: A model for studies of education competencies	3
Context-specific elective coursework and student’s employability development: Application of social cognitive career theory in hospitality education	3
Experiential learning in sport tourism curriculum: A case study at the university of the Algarve	3
Determinants of hospitality students' perceived learning during COVID 19 pandemic: Role of interactions and self-efficacy	3
A possible transformation of tourism education: A chaos theory perspective	3
A deep introspection into the role of ChatGPT for transforming hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education	3
Self-confidence and perceived importance of pre-arrival sport students at an English higher education institution: Exploring gender and programme of study differences	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
Using goal-setting theory and expectancy theory to understand career goal implementation in the hospitality industry	3
Student's perceptions of sharing platforms and digital learning for sustainable behaviour and value changes	3
The effect of professional expectations of tour guiding students on their professional motivation	3
Engaging students through authentic learning: Connecting with international tourism partners	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
Antecedents and outcomes of educational travel in higher education	3
A Comparative Analysis on the Career Perceptions of Tourism Management Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Which combination of teaching methods lead to high level of effectiveness in offline-online mixed teaching? A configuration analysis based on fsQCA	3