Journal
The Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for scholarly research in tourism and leisure.
The Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for scholarly research in tourism and leisure.
We are working to change the way in which knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.
The Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies is Gold Open Access (OA). This means that the final published version of your article (or Version of Record) is permanently and freely available online for anyone, anywhere, to read. We provide two options for covering the Article Publication Charge (APC):
1) You may opt to purchase a Membership, which grants you a discounted rate on the APC. **Note that Membership is automatically included with all Conference Presenter Passes.
2) Alternatively, you can pay the full Article Publishing Charge (APC) during the Rights Agreement Phase of our publication process.
We take seriously the “peer” of “peer review.” Decisions of what is published come from reviewers that are Members of the Research Network ensuring the knowledge is validated in horizontal social knowledge relations.
Review scores are based on a clearly articulated rubric, and the result is a peer-review process that is scrupulously fair in its assessments, while at the same time offering carefully structured and constructive feedback that enhances the quality of the published article. Each year a top-ranked article from the Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies receives the International Award for Excellence.
We take research integrity seriously, following standards and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We’re also active members of key industry associations: Association of American Publishers, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, The Society for Scholarly Publishing, and Crossref.
We also seek to frame a publishing process without prejudice to institutional affiliation, stage in career, national origins, or disciplinary perspectives. If the article is excellent and has been systematically and independently assessed, it will be published.
The Association of American
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an international membership trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content. With over 300 members in 30 countries, membership also includes those that work with these publishers.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.
Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organization for scholarly publishing. Crossref and its members work to make content easy to find, link, cite, and assess by using online tools and services to improve research communications. Crossref’s goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad network connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.
We are proud to be a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact. Launched in collaboration with the International Publishers Association, the compact “features 10 action points that publishers, publishing associations, and others can commit to undertaking in order to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs, publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop and inspire action in that direction.”