Author Guidelines

Author Requirements

• Manuscripts must be written in English and submitted through the Scholardemia JOTS submission workflow.
• Submissions must be original, not previously published, and not under consideration by another journal.
• Authors must include a title, abstract, keywords, author details, affiliations, and a corresponding author email.
• Authors must disclose funding, conflicts of interest, ethics approval, data availability, and permissions where applicable.
• Tables, figures, and supplementary material must be clearly labelled, cited in the text, and supplied with captions.
• References must be complete, consistent, and sufficient for readers to locate cited work.

Manuscript Preparation

• Research articles may be theoretical, conceptual, or empirical and should make a clear contribution to tourism and sustainable development research.
• The manuscript file for review must be anonymised for double-anonymous peer review.
• Author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and identifying file metadata must be removed from the review file.
• Authors are responsible for securing permission for any third-party material included in the submission.
• Submissions that do not follow these requirements may be returned before peer review.

Subject Coverage

• Development and policy.
• Eco-tourism as a force for development.
• Small and medium enterprises in tourism.
• Tourism dependency, destination marketing, and tourism demand.
• Tourism strategies and sustainable destination management.
• Rural tourism, homestays, and cultural experiences.
• Impacts of tourism on communities, cultures, economies, and environments.
• Voluntourism, travel philanthropy, and community-based tourism.
• Mountain tourism, wellness tourism, religious or spiritual tourism, and dark tourism.
• Methodologies in tourism research.
• Environmentalism, conservationism, and responsible travel policy.

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