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Tourism Economics

Tourism Economics


eISSN: 20440375 | ISSN: 13548166 | Current volume: 30 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: 8 Times/Year

Tourism Economics is an international peer reviewed journal, covering the business aspects of tourism in the wider context. It takes account of constraints on development, such as social and community interests and the sustainable use of tourism and recreation resources, and inputs into the production process. The definition of tourism used includes tourist trips taken for all purposes, embracing both stay and day visitors.
Articles address the components of the tourism product (accommodation; restaurants; merchandizing; attractions; transport; entertainment; tourist activities); and the economic organization of tourism at micro and macro levels (market structure; role of public/private sectors; community interests; strategic planning; marketing; finance; economic development).

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Core subject areas:

  • forecasting
  • public policy (strategies, fiscal and other intervention policies)
  • economic development
  • market structures and competition
  • sources of capital provision
  • labour economics (quality and productivity issues)
  • business aspects of marketing
  • private and public sector interaction
  • economic appraisal at sector and project level
  • mathematical modelling
  • developments in the components of the product
  • structure of the tourism industry (including such issues as ownership, corporate size, international operations, etc)
  • regional economic effects of tourism developments
  • analysis of international data on tourism, such as WTO statistics

Tourism Economics publishes regular special issues. Current calls for papers are listed here.

 

Tourism Economics is an international peer reviewed journal, covering the economic and business aspects of tourism in the wider context. It takes account of constraints on development, such as social and community interests and the sustainable use of tourism and recreation resources, and inputs into the production process. The definition of tourism used includes tourist trips taken for all purposes, embracing both stay and day visitors.

Articles address the components of the tourism product (accommodation; restaurants; merchandizing; attractions; transport; entertainment; tourist activities); the economic organization of tourism at micro and macro levels (market structure; role of public/private sectors; community interests; strategic planning; marketing; finance; economic development; sustainability and the economic analysis of tourism demand).

Core subject areas:
• public policy (strategies, fiscal and other intervention policies)
• economic development
• market structures and competition
• sources of capital provision
• labor economics (quality and productivity issues)
• consumer economics
• private and public sector interaction
• economic appraisal at sector and project level
• forecasting and economic analysis
• economic modelling
• methodologies for data analysis
• developments in the components of the product
• structure of the tourism industry (including such issues as ownership, corporate size, international operations, etc.)
• regional economic effects of tourism developments
• analysis of international data on tourism
• impact analysis
• tourism performance and productivity: modelling and analysis
• tourism competitiveness
• sharing economy
• economic analysis from big data

Tourism Economics publishes regular special issues. Current calls for papers are listed here.
 

Editor in Chief
Albert Assaf University of Massachusetts, USA
Editor
Raffaele Scuderi Kore University of Enna, Italy
Editor Emeritus
Stephen Wanhill University of Limerick Ireland and Bournemouth University, UK
Special Advisers
John Charles Crotts College of Charleston, USA
Geoffrey Crouch La Trobe University, Australia
Larry Dwyer The University of Technology Sydney, Australia
John Fletcher International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University, UK
Joseph Mazanec MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Manuel Rivera University of Central Florida, USA
Chris Ryan Waikato Management School, NZ
Mike Tsionas Lancaster University, UK
Lindsay Turner School of Applied Economics Victoria University, Australia
Muzzo (Muzaffer) Uysal University of Massachusetts, USA
Editorial Board
Graziano Abrate Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Frank W. Agbola The University of Newcastle, Australia
Isabel Albaladejo University of Murcia, Spain
Faizan Ali University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA
Marcos Alvarez Diaz University of Vigo, Spain
Apostolos Ampountolas Boston University, USA
Rodolfo Baggio Bocconi University, Italy
Faruk Balli Massey University, New Zealand
Charbel Bassil Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Adiyukh Berbekova University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Enrico Bertacchini University of Turin, Italy
Bianca Biagi University of Sassari, Italy
Karol Jan Borowiecki University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
David Boto-García University of Oviedo, Spain
Gabriel Brida Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay
Umit Bulut Ahi Evran University, Turkey
Jose António Cabral Vieira University of the Azores, Portugal
Juan Campos Soria University of Malaga, Spain
Concetta Castiglione University of Calabria, Italy
Nevenka Cavlek University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ming-Hsiang Chen Washington State University, USA
Yong Chen Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
Francesca D'Angella Università IULM, Italy
Chiara Dalle Nogare University of Brescia, Italy
Glauber Eduardo de Oliveira Santos University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ender Demir Reykjavik University, Iceland
Taotao Deng Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
Tarik Dogru Florida State University, USA
Juan Antonio Duro Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Tomás Espino-Rodríguez University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Juan Luis Eugenio Martin University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Martin Falk University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Vincenzo Fasone Kore University of Enna, Italy
Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni Western Sydney University, Australia
Paolo Figini University of Bologna, Italy
Chor Foon Tang Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Maria Gabriela Ladum University of L'Aquila, Italy
Maria Santana Gallego Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Brian Garrod University of Swansea, UK
Sauveur Giannoni Université de Corse, France
Luís Alberiko Gil-Alana University of Navarra, Spain
Eva Hagsten Södertörn University, Sweden
Mingming Hu Business School, Guangxi University
Songshan (Sam) Huang Edith Cowan University, Australia
Twan Huybers University of New South Wales, Australia
Federico Inchausti-Sintes University of Las Palmas en Gran Canaria, Spain
Cem Isik Anadolu University, Turkey
Stanislav Ivanov International University College, Bulgaria
Alexander Josiassen Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Jinwon Kim University of Florida, USA
Yoo Ri Kim, PhD School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey
Brian King Texas A&M University, USA
Murat Kizildag Rosen College of Hospitality Management, USA
Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Emrah Kocak Erciyes University, Turkey
Yoon Koh University of Houston, USA
Ali Koseoglu Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Ivan Kozic Institute for Tourism, Croatia
Rob Law University of Macau, China
Minwoo Lee University of Houston, USA
Seoki Lee The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Seul Ki Lee Sejong University, South Korea
Veronica Leoni University of Bologna, Italy
Gang Li University of Surrey, UK
Hengyun (Neil) Li The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hui Li Nankai University College of Tourism and Service Management, China
Xiang (Robert) Li Temple University, USA
Adelaida Lillo-Banuls University of Alicante, Spain
Xiang Lin Södertörn University, Sweden
Anyu Liu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Jesús Manuel López-Bonilla University of Seville, Spain
Han Liu Business School and Center for Quantitative Economics, Jilin University
Sidney Lung Victoria University, Australia
Melih Madanoglu Florida Atlantic University, USA
Rico Maggi Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Simone Marsiglio University of Wollongong, Australia
Juan Carlos Martín Hernández University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Onofre Martorell Cunill Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Lorenzo Masiero University of Bologna, Italy
Anna S. Mattila The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Marta Meleddu University of Sassari, Italy
Fang Meng University of South Carolina
Tanja Mihalic University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Makarand Mody Boston University, USA
Jaume Rosselló Nadal Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Bart Neuts KU Leuven, Belgium
Sarah Nicholls Swansea University, UK
Juan Luis Nicolau Virginia Tech University, USA
Jean-Jacques Nowak Université de Lille, France
Yasuo Ohe Chiba University, Japan
Irem Önder MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Ozgur Ozdemir University of Nevada, USA
Sungbeen Park New Jersey City University, USA
Pierpaolo Pattitoni University of Bologna, Italy
James E. Payne Oklahoma State University, USA
José Francisco Perles Ribes University of Alicante, Spain
Sylvain Petit University of French Polynesia, France
Nicolas Peypoch University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France
Stephen Pratt University of Central Florida, USA
Davide Provenzano University of Palermo, Italy
Manuela Pulina University of Sassari, Italy
Richard Tianran Qiu University of Macau, Macau
Yael Ram Ashkelon Academic College, Israel
Ana Ramon Rodriguez University of Alicante, Spain
Vicente Ramos University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Jorge Ridderstaat University of Central Florida, USA
Andrea Saayman North-West University, South Africa
Mondher Sahli Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ruggero Sainaghi Università IULM, Italy
Zyi Schwartz University of Delaware, USA
Neelu Seetaram Leeds Beckett University, UK
Ricardo Sellers-Rubio Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Kwanglim Seo University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA
Valeriya Shapoval University of Central Florida, USA
Atul Sheel Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Dr. Emmanuel Sirimal Silva Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Egon Smeral MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Kevin Kam Fung So Oklahoma State University, USA
Haiyan Song Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Sujin Song Dong-Eui University in Busan, South Korea
Maria Jesus Such Devesa University of Alcala, Spain
Courtney Suess Texas A&M University, USA
Kyung-A Sun Gachon University, South Korea
Jordi Suriñach University of Barcelona, Spain
Candy Mey Fung Tang University of Macau, China
Henry Tsai The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Nickolaos G. Tzeremes University of Thessaly, Greece
Ulrich Gunter MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Laura Vici University of Bologna, Italy
Giampaolo Viglia University of Portsmouth, UK
Serena Volo Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stephen Wanhill University of Limerick Ireland and Bournemouth University, UK
Peter F. Wanke Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rodney B. Warnick University of Massachusetts, USA
Long Wen University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Linda Woo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Chenguang (Doris) Wu Sun Yat-sen University, China
Zheng Xiang Virginia Tech, USA
Yang Yang Temple University, USA
Yang Yong East China Normal University, China
Bozana Zekan Modul University, Austria
Jianping Zha Sichuan University, China
Hongru Zhang JiangXi University of Finance and Economics, China
Linjia Zhang International Business School Suzhou at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Lorenzo Zirulia University of Milan, Italy
Bing Zuo Sun Yat-sen University, China
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  • Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Tourism Economics

    This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics

    Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/teu to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.

    Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Tourism Economics will be reviewed.

    There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.

    As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Tourism Economics may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.

    1. What do we publish?
      1.1 Aims & Scope
      1.2 Article types
      1.3 Writing your paper
    2. Editorial policies
      2.1 Peer review policy
      2.2 Authorship
      2.3 Acknowledgements
      2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests
      2.5 Data
    3. Publishing policies
      3.1 Publication ethics
      3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
      3.3 Open access and author archiving
    4. Preparing your manuscript
      4.1 Formatting
      4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
      4.3 Identifiable Information
      4.4 Supplemental material
      4.5 Reference style
      4.6 English language editing services
    5. Submitting your manuscript
      5.1 ORCID
      5.2 Information required for completing your submission
      5.3 Permissions
    6. On acceptance and publication
      6.1 SAGE Production
      6.2 Online First publication
      6.3 Access to your published article
      6.4 Promoting your article
    7. Further information
      7.1 Appealing the publication decision

     

    1. What do we publish?

    1.1 Aims & Scope

    Before submitting your manuscript to Tourism Economics, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.

    1.2 Article Types

    The manuscript length is usually between 7,000 and 8000 words. It can be one of the following types:

    Empirical article

    Tourism Economics encourages the submission of well-designed and innovative applications using either primary or secondary data. Papers that just repeat existing applications with a slightly different context or dataset will most likely be desk rejected. The paper needs to clearly highlight the existing gaps in the literature, discuss the relevant theory, and introduce the research hypotheses.  Details on all data sources should be clearly provided. The method section needs to highlight why the use of a particular methodology is more recommended, giving greater and appropriate details when recent or novel techniques are used. Finally, the discussion section should not simply repeat the results, but highlight the implications, contributions and the limitations of the existing study.

     Conceptual article

    Tourism Economics encourages the submission of high quality conceptual articles that aim to build or further develop a certain tourism economic theory. The goals should not be a simple criticism of the existing literature, but rather some new conceptual arguments, more robust theory building and expansion.

     Review article

    Tourism Economics encourages the submission of comprehensive, thorough and critical review articles that presents the literature’s state of the art on a specific topic. Results from meta-analysis are highly desirable, though not strictly necessary.

     Research note

    Tourism Economics also publishes research notes (RN). RNs are not necessarily a summarized version of a full paper. They can focus on some unanswered research questions that require further development in the literature. They can also promote some new schools of thoughts, introduce some new hypotheses or propositions, and contribute to some on-going debates in the literature. The length of a research note is usually between 1,500 and 2,000 words.

     Commentary articles

    Tourism Economics also publishes commentary articles. These articles are usually invited by the editor and represent a short opinion or discussion about some on-going topics or debates in the tourism economic literature. 

    Potential authors are welcome to submit a commentary article proposal to the editors, indicating the topic, a detailed abstract, and using the email contact details below.

    Please visit our Sage Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts.

    1.3 Writing your paper

    The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. SAGE Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

    1.3.1 Make your article discoverable

    When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.

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    2. Editorial policies

    2.1 Peer review policy

    Sage does not permit the use of author-suggested (recommended) reviewers at any stage of the submission process, be that through the web-based submission system or other communication.

    Reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Our policy is that reviewers should not be assigned to a paper if:

    • The reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the co-authors.
    • The reviewer is based at the funding body of the paper.
    • The author has recommended the reviewer.
    • The reviewer has provided a personal (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) email account and an institutional email account cannot be found after performing a basic Google search (name, department and institution).

    The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. Tourism Economics utilizes a double-anonymized peer review process in which the reviewer and authors’ names and information are withheld from the other. Reviewers may at their own discretion opt to reveal their names to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for their identities to remain concealed. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor who then makes the final decision.

    The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

    Tourism Economics is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper, and as such has partnered with Web of Science (previously Publons). Web of Science is a third-party service that seeks to track, verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Tourism Economics can opt in to Web of Science in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically verified and added to their reviewer profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal, but the article name, reviewer’s decision and the content of their review is not published on the site. For more information visit the Web of Science website.

    The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

    2.2 Authorship

    All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.

    Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.

    2.3 Acknowledgements

    All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

    Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.

    Per ICMJE recommendations, it is best practice to obtain consent from non-author contributors who you are acknowledging in your paper.

    2.3.1 Third party submissions

    Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

    • Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
    • Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
    • Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

    Where appropriate, SAGE reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

    2.3.2 Writing assistance

    Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.

    2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests

    Tourism Economics encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.

    2.5 Research data 

    The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the SAGE Research Data policy pages.

    Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

    • share your research data in a relevant public data repository
    • include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
    • cite this data in your research

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    3. Publishing Policies

    3.1 Publication ethics

    SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.

    3.1.1 Plagiarism

    Tourism Economics and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

    3.1.2 Prior publication

    If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.

    3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement

    Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.

    3.3 Open access and author archiving

    Tourism Economics offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.

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    4. Preparing your manuscript for submission

    4.1 Preperation and formatting

    The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.

    Tourism Economics requires authors to submit a short author biography. You will be asked to upload this as a separate file to the title page an manuscript. It should be no longer than 90 words. Please note that the author biography will be published alongside your manuscript. 

    Please also provide a link to pages that show further information about yourself or your publications, for example your ORCID page, your google scholar page or an institutional biography page.

    “Please note that if you are uploading a revision, you must upload a summary of your responses to reviewer comments for consideration by the editors. This will not be published.”

    4.1.1 Title page

    The title page includes the manuscript title; authors’ names and affiliation, email address; indication of the corresponding author, telephone number, fax number and any acknowledgements.

    Tourism Economics requests that wherever possible authors use institutional e-mail addresses for all authors when submitting their paper, unless a researcher is independent or unaffiliated with any institution.

    4.1.2 Manuscript

    The manuscript should be anonymous and should avoid any element that identifies the author(s).
    The manuscript should include a title, abstract, 4 to 6 keywords, text, appendices, notes, references, each table, and each figure.  Everything needs to be double-spaced and left justified.
    Title, abstract and keywords should appear on the first page of the manuscript. The text will begin in the following page, followed by references, tables and figures.
    Title should be concise and informative.
    Abstract’s length is 150 words or less.
    The text can be organised into Sections and Subsections, which do not have to be numbered.
    Tables and figures need to be numbered consecutively. Each of them should be put on a separate page at the end of the manuscript. Tags in the text should be inserted to indicate where the various tables and figures should be located.
    Manuscripts can adopt either American or British spellings. A combination of both spellings for the same article is not acceptable.

    “Please note that if you are uploading a revision, you must upload a summary of your responses to reviewer comments for consideration by the editors. This will not be published.”

    4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics

    For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.

    Authors should bear in mind that, in the print version of the journal, illustrations will be reproduced in black and white.

    4.3 Identifiable Information

    Where a journal uses double-anonymised peer review, authors are required to submit:

    1. A version of the manuscript which has had any information that compromises the anonymity of the author(s) removed or anonymized. This version will be sent to the peer reviewers.
    2. A separate title page which includes any removed or anonymised material. This will not be sent to the peer reviewers.

    Visit the Sage Author Gateway for detailed guidance on making an anonymous submission.

    4.4 Supplemental material

    This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.

    4.5 Reference style

    Tourism Economics adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.

    If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.

    4.6 English language editing services

    Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.

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    5. Submitting your manuscript

    Tourism Economics is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/teu to login and submit your article online.

    IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.  For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

    5.1 ORCID

    As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

    The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

    If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

    5.2 Information required for completing your submission

    You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).

    5.3 Permissions

    Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.

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    6. On acceptance and publication

    6.1 SAGE Production

    Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal SAGE Edit or by email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. 

    6.2 Online First publication

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    7. Further information

    Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Tourism Economics editorial office as follows:

    Professor Albert Assaf: assaf@isenberg.umass.edu

    Professor Raffaele Scuderi: raffaele.scuderi@unikore.it

    7.1 Appealing the publication decision

    Editors have very broad discretion in determining whether an article is an appropriate fit for their journal. Many manuscripts are declined with a very general statement of the rejection decision. These decisions are not eligible for formal appeal unless the author believes the decision to reject the manuscript was based on an error in the review of the article, in which case the author may appeal the decision by providing the Editor with a detailed written description of the error they believe occurred.

    If an author believes the decision regarding their manuscript was affected by a publication ethics breach, the author may contact the publisher with a detailed written description of their concern, and information supporting the concern, at publication_ethics@sagepub.com.

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