Guide for authors – Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS OF REFEREED ARTICLES

The Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism welcomes original contributions in the English language. Articles must be written in English (spelling may be either British or American English, if this is consistent throughout the paper). Articles are accepted for review on the understanding that the same work has not been and will not nor be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All contributors will be required to sign a licence to publish form following acceptance of an article.

Please note the following guidelines as they pertain to the acceptance of your article for the peer review process:

Articles should be between 6,000-10,000 words in total length. Figures and tables are included in the word count and are counted at 300 words each.
An abstract between 100 and 150 words should indicate the motivation of the work, the method, the most important results and conclusions.
List three to six characteristic keywords for your article.
Add the following information on a separate sheet or preferably in a separate file: the title of the paper, the names of all authors, one correspondence address including an email address and affiliation as well as the affiliations of any further authors of the article.
Use only the title of the article as the heading of the submitted typescript, do not add your name/s or address/es. Avoid formulations like ‘In my article dating back to 2000 I have already shown …’ to facilitate the anonymous referee process.

Please submit two files:

File 1 – Title page which will include author details.
File 2 – Anonymous manuscript. Please do not include your details in the file name.

If your article is accepted for publication, the following guidelines will have to be observed for publication. If need be, you will receive a list with required corrections.

Therefore, we recommend that the following guidelines be observed from the very outset:

Copyright and permission: Permission to reproduce from copyright material is required if the quoted extract exceeds 300 words. This is only a rough estimation, and permission should be sought from the publisher of any published material if in doubt. It is the author’s responsibility to seek written permission for any work in copyright and to settle any fees which may arise because of this. Acknowledgement of source, author and publisher must be made. Permissions should be cleared up before the article is submitted.

Libel: Please ensure that you do not make any defamatory or injurious statement about living people, institutions or other organizations which could result in libel claims.

We prefer Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Please ensure that you save the most recent version of your file. We suggest using the ‘Save As …’ option to save the most recent version and naming it with the date the file was created.

Present your file as simply as possible. Do not do any designing or formatting. Regardless of how smart the text looks on screen; any complex formatting will have to be stripped out. Complex formatting will take up more of your time and will also complicate and delay the production process.

All text should be ranged left, unjustified and without hyphenation for word division at the ends of lines.

Use hard carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs and to signify indents.

Be careful not to key in unnecessary spaces: only one space is necessary at the end of a sentence after a full point.

One space should be keyed after a comma or other punctuation and before an opening parenthesis. There is no space following full points after initials (Mr J.B. Smith) or between contractions.

Accents should be retained.

Commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence – for example: yesterday, however, at last, during the summer.

Dates should be written 30 November 2025, and decades should be the 2000s without an apostrophe.

Footnotes and endnotes cannot be accommodated. Please integrate these into the main text.

Hyphenation: Avoid using hyphens wherever possible, unless doing so makes the text confusing.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.

Omit apostrophes in plurals, for example 1950s, MPs.

Avoid too much emphasis. Italics should be used sparingly for emphasis.

Replace parochialisms such as ‘in this country’ or ‘this year’ with the country name or specific year.

Try to use gender sensitive formulations.

Unnumbered lists should not have more than one level, i.e. do not use sub-lists within unnumbered lists.

Please ensure that all references cited in the text are also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

For quotations and references use the APA style (7th ed.):

One author: (Tuyen, 2025, p. 84)

Two authors: (Jasrotia & Singh, 2023)

Three or more authors: (Rogowski et al., 2022)

Quotations/extracts must be an exact reproduction of the original in both spelling and punctuation even if this conflicts with journal style. For quotations of fewer than 40 words, double quotation marks are required around the words, and the quotation is incorporated into the text. For quotations exceeding 40 words, the quotation should be written on a new line, and the entire block should be indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. Any notes or editorial comment within the extracts should appear in square brackets and any omissions should be indicated by 3 dots in square brackets. Ensure that opening quotation marks are distinguished from closing quotation marks.

Combine all bibliographical details and your data sources in a list of references. Note the following examples as an orientation:

Journal Article

Decrop, A., Frochot, I. & Masset, J. (2020). Translating a bright and noisy experience: Videography for tourism research. Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, 1(1), 7–27. https://doi.org/10.4337/jqrt.2020.01.01

Book

Cohen, E. (2004). Contemporary tourism: Diversity and change. Elsevier.

Chapter in Edited Book

Andriotis, K. (2021). Introduction. In K. Andriotis (Ed.), Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism (pp. 1-21). CABI.

Conference Paper

Zemla, M. (2025, June 25-28). Managing overtourism in European cities: Systematic literature review results [Conference presentation]. ICOT2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://iatour.org/icot2025/

Doctoral Dissertation

Godfrey, K. B. (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: Towards a sustainable framework [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Oxford Brookes University.

Webpage on a website

World Tourism Organization. (2025, November 27). International tourist arrivals up 5% in the first nine months of 2025. UN Tourism. https://www.untourism.int/news/international-tourist-arrivals-up-5-in-the-first-nine-months-of-2025

More than one contribution by the same author

Arrange in date order, including author name for each entry.

When author has two or more publications in the same year

If an author has two or more publications in the same year, they are distinguished by placing a, b, etc. after the year. For example, Monterrubio (2019a; 2019b) etc., and they are referred to accordingly in the text.

Insert mathematical equations and variables throughout your document only by use of the equation editor of your word processor.

The publisher will copy and edit the text, and the layout will be determined by the journal style.

The copy editor will liaise with you over any queries that may arise. After the copy editing has been completed and your answers to any editor queries have been incorporated the file will be sent to the typesetter.

Proof of your article will be emailed to you in a PDF file so that you can check that no errors have been made when the file was converted. Alterations at this stage would be extremely expensive and time-consuming and might delay publication of the journal. We do not take responsibility for mistakes that have been overlooked and thus not corrected in the proofs.

The corresponding author submits the manuscript to the online submission system of the journal available at: https://jqrt.online/publish/submit-your-article/

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS OF RESEARCH NOTES

The Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism welcomes original contributions in the English language. Research notes are not full articles but are shorter provocative pieces seeking to advance a new idea, theoretical approach or method. The format of a research note can be more flexible than a full article but needs to make a valuable contribution to the study of qualitative research in tourism.

Research notes must be written in English (spelling may be either British or American English, as long as this is consistent throughout the paper). Research notes are accepted for review on the understanding that the same work has not been and will not be nor is currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All contributors will be required to sign a licence to publish form following acceptance of a research note.

Please note the following guidelines as they pertain to the acceptance of your research note for the peer review process:

Research notes should not exceed 2,000-4,000 words in total length. Figures and tables are included in the word count and are counted at 300 words each.
An abstract between 100 and 150 words should indicate the motivation of the work, the method, the most important results and conclusions.
List three to six characteristic keywords for your research note.
Add the following information on a separate sheet or preferably in a separate file: the title of the paper, the names of all authors, one correspondence address including an email address and affiliation as well as the affiliations of any further authors of the research note.
Use only the title of the research note as the heading of the submitted typescript, do not add your name/s or address/es. Avoid formulations like ‘In my article dating back to 2000 I have already shown …’ to facilitate the anonymous referee process.

Please submit two files:

File 1 – Title page which will include author details.
File 2 – Anonymous manuscript. Please do not include your details in the file name.

If your research note is accepted for publication, the following guidelines will have to be observed for publication. If need be, you will receive a list with required corrections. Therefore, we recommend that the following guidelines be observed from the very outset:

Copyright and permission: Permission to reproduce from copyright material is required if the quoted extract exceeds 300 words. This is only a rough estimation, and permission should be sought from the publisher of any published material if in doubt. It is the author’s responsibility to seek written permission for any work in copyright and to settle any fees which may arise because of this. Acknowledgement of source, author and publisher must be made. Permissions should be cleared up before the article is submitted.

Libel: Please ensure that you do not make any defamatory or injurious statement about living people, institutions or other organizations which could result in libel claims.

We prefer Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Please ensure that you save the most recent version of your file. We suggest using the ‘Save As …’ option to save the most recent version and naming it with the date the file was created.

Present your file as simply as possible. Do not do any designing or formatting. Regardless of how smart the text looks on screen; any complex formatting will have to be stripped out. Complex formatting will take up more of your time and will also complicate and delay the production process.

All text should be ranged left, unjustified and without hyphenation for word division at the ends of lines.

Use hard carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs and to signify indents.

Be careful not to key in unnecessary spaces: only one space is necessary at the end of a sentence after a full point.

One space should be keyed after a comma or other punctuation and before an opening parenthesis. There is no space following full points after initials (Mr J.B. Smith) or between contractions.

Accents should be retained.

Commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence – for example: yesterday, however, at last, during the summer.

Dates should be written 30 November 2025, and decades should be the 2000s without an apostrophe.

Footnotes and endnotes cannot be accommodated. Please integrate these into the main text.

Hyphenation: Avoid using hyphens wherever possible, unless doing so makes the text confusing.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.

Omit apostrophes in plurals, for example 1950s, MPs.

Avoid too much emphasis. Italics should be used sparingly for emphasis.

Replace parochialisms such as ‘in this country’ or ‘this year’ with the country name or specific year.

Try to use gender sensitive formulations.

Unnumbered lists should not have more than one level, i.e. do not use sub-lists within unnumbered lists.

Please ensure that all references cited in the text are also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

For quotations and references use the APA style (7th ed.):

One author: (Tuyen, 2025, p. 84)

Two authors: (Jasrotia & Singh, 2023)

Three or more authors: (Rogowski et al., 2022)

Quotations/extracts must be an exact reproduction of the original in both spelling and punctuation even if this conflicts with journal style. For quotations of fewer than 40 words, double quotation marks are required around the words, and the quotation is incorporated into the text. For quotations exceeding 40 words, the quotation should be written on a new line, and the entire block should be indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. Any notes or editorial comment within the extracts should appear in square brackets and any omissions should be indicated by 3 dots in square brackets. Ensure that opening quotation marks are distinguished from closing quotation marks.

Combine all bibliographical details and your data sources in a list of references. Note the following examples as an orientation:

Journal Article

Book

Cohen, E. (2004). Contemporary tourism: Diversity and change. Elsevier.

Chapter in Edited Book

Andriotis, K. (2021). Introduction. In K. Andriotis (Ed.), Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism (pp. 1-21). CABI.

Conference Paper

Zemla, M. (2025, June 25-28). Managing overtourism in European cities: Systematic literature review results [Conference presentation]. ICOT2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://iatour.org/icot2025/

Doctoral Dissertation

Godfrey, K. B. (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: Towards a sustainable framework [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Oxford Brookes University.

Webpage on a website

More than one contribution by the same author

Arrange in date order, including author name for each entry.

When author has two or more publications in the same year

Insert mathematical equations and variables throughout your document only by use of the equation editor of your word processor.

The publisher will copy and edit the text, and the layout will be determined by the journal style.

Proof of your research note will be emailed to you in a PDF file so that you can check that no errors have been made when the file was converted. Alterations at this stage would be extremely expensive and time-consuming and might delay publication of the journal. We do not take responsibility for mistakes that have been overlooked and thus not corrected in the proofs.

The corresponding author submits the manuscript to the online submission system of the journal available at: https://jqrt.online/publish/submit-your-article/

GUIDELINES FOR BOOK REVIEWERS

Book reviews should be submitted in English (consistent British or American English) and should refer to monographs or anthologies not older than 24 months. Please keep book reviews between 800-2,000 words. The book review editor will decide whether to accept or revise the review. On request we can send you a review copy of the book you are interested in reviewing. All book reviewers will be required to sign a licence to publish form following acceptance of a book review.

Details of the book should be stated at the beginning of your review as in the following examples:

Chhabra, D. (2023). Resilience, authenticity and digital heritage tourism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 252 pages, hardcover, ISBN 9780367566630.

Stylidis, D., & Seetanah, B. (Eds.) (2021). Tourism planning and development in South Asia. Wallingford, UK: CABI. 176 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1-78924-669-8.

Indicate your correspondence address including email address.

If your book review is accepted for publication, the following guidelines will have to be observed for publication. If need be, you will receive a list with required corrections. Therefore, we recommend that the following guidelines be observed from the very outset:

Copyright and permission: Permission to reproduce from copyright material is required if the quoted extract exceeds 300 words. This is only a rough estimation, and permission should be sought from the publisher of any published material if in doubt. It is the author’s responsibility to seek written permission for any work in copyright and to settle any fees which may arise because of this. Acknowledgement of source, author and publisher must be made. Permissions should be cleared up before the article is submitted.

Libel: Please ensure that you do not make any defamatory or injurious statement about living people, institutions or other organizations which could result in libel claims.

We prefer Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Please ensure that you save the most recent version of your file. We suggest using the ‘Save As …’ option to save the most recent version and naming it with the date the file was created.

Present your file as simply as possible. Do not do any designing or formatting. Regardless of how smart the text looks on screen; any complex formatting will have to be stripped out. Complex formatting will take up more of your time and will also complicate and delay the production process.

All text should be ranged left, unjustified and without hyphenation for word division at the ends of lines.

Use hard carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs and to signify indents.

Be careful not to key in unnecessary spaces: only one space is necessary at the end of a sentence after a full point.

One space should be keyed after a comma or other punctuation and before an opening parenthesis. There is no space following full points after initials (Mr J.B. Smith) or between contractions.

Accents should be retained.

Commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence – for example: yesterday, however, at last, during the summer.

Dates should be written 30 November 2025, and decades should be the 2000s without an apostrophe.

Footnotes and endnotes cannot be accommodated. Please integrate these into the main text.

Hyphenation: Avoid using hyphens wherever possible, unless doing so makes the text confusing.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.

Omit apostrophes in plurals, for example 1950s, MPs.

Avoid too much emphasis. Italics should be used sparingly for emphasis.

Replace parochialisms such as ‘in this country’ or ‘this year’ with the country name or specific year.

Try to use gender sensitive formulations.

Unnumbered lists should not have more than one level, i.e. do not use sub-lists within unnumbered lists.

Please ensure that all references cited in the text are also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

For quotations and references use the APA style (7^th):

One author: (Tuyen, 2025, p. 84)

Two authors: (Jasrotia & Singh, 2023)

Three or more authors: (Rogowski et al., 2022)

Quotations/extracts must be an exact reproduction of the original in both spelling and punctuation even if this conflicts with journal style. For quotations of fewer than 40 words, double quotation marks are required around the words, and the quotation is incorporated into the text. For quotations exceeding 40 words, the quotation should be written on a new line, and the entire block should be indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. Any notes or editorial comment within the extracts should appear in square brackets and any omissions should be indicated by 3 dots in square brackets. Ensure that opening quotation marks are distinguished from closing quotation marks.

Combine all bibliographical details and your data sources in a list of references. Note the following examples as an orientation:

Journal Article

Book

Cohen, E. (2004). Contemporary tourism: Diversity and change. Elsevier.

Chapter in Edited Book

Andriotis, K. (2021). Introduction. In K. Andriotis (Ed.), Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism (pp. 1-21). CABI.

Conference Paper

Zemla, M. (2025, June 25-28). Managing overtourism in European cities: Systematic literature review results [Conference presentation]. ICOT2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://iatour.org/icot2025/

Doctoral Dissertation

Godfrey, K. B. (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: Towards a sustainable framework [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Oxford Brookes University.

Webpage on a website

More than one contribution by the same author

Arrange in date order, including author name for each entry.

When author has two or more publications in the same year

Please send your book review via email to qrt@jqrt.online

The publisher will copy and edit the text, and the layout will be determined by the journal style.

Proof of your book review will be emailed to you in a PDF file so that you can check that no errors have been made when the file was converted. Alterations at this stage would be extremely expensive and time-consuming and might delay publication of the journal. We do not take responsibility for mistakes that have been overlooked and thus not corrected in the proofs.

The corresponding author submits the manuscript to the online submission system of the journal available at: https://jqrt.online/publish/submit-your-article/

Please note the following guidelines as they pertain to the acceptance of your article for the peer review process:

Articles should be between 6,000-10,000 words in total length. Figures and tables are included in the word count and are counted at 300 words each.
An abstract between 100 and 150 words should indicate the motivation of the work, the method, the most important results and conclusions.
List three to six characteristic keywords for your article.
Add the following information on a separate sheet or preferably in a separate file: the title of the paper, the names of all authors, one correspondence address including an email address and affiliation as well as the affiliations of any further authors of the article.
Use only the title of the article as the heading of the submitted typescript, do not add your name/s or address/es. Avoid formulations like ‘In my article dating back to 2000 I have already shown …’ to facilitate the anonymous referee process.

If your article is accepted for publication, the following guidelines will have to be observed for publication. If need be, you will receive a list with required corrections.

Therefore, we recommend that the following guidelines be observed from the very outset:

Copyright and permission: Permission to reproduce from copyright material is required if the quoted extract exceeds 300 words. This is only a rough estimation, and permission should be sought from the publisher of any published material if in doubt. It is the author’s responsibility to seek written permission for any work in copyright and to settle any fees which may arise because of this. Acknowledgement of source, author and publisher must be made. Permissions should be cleared up before the article is submitted.

Libel: Please ensure that you do not make any defamatory or injurious statement about living people, institutions or other organizations which could result in libel claims.

We prefer Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Please ensure that you save the most recent version of your file. We suggest using the ‘Save As …’ option to save the most recent version and naming it with the date the file was created.

Present your file as simply as possible. Do not do any designing or formatting. Regardless of how smart the text looks on screen; any complex formatting will have to be stripped out. Complex formatting will take up more of your time and will also complicate and delay the production process.

All text should be ranged left, unjustified and without hyphenation for word division at the ends of lines.

Use hard carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs and to signify indents.

Be careful not to key in unnecessary spaces: only one space is necessary at the end of a sentence after a full point.

One space should be keyed after a comma or other punctuation and before an opening parenthesis. There is no space following full points after initials (Mr J.B. Smith) or between contractions.

Accents should be retained.

Commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence – for example: yesterday, however, at last, during the summer.

Dates should be written 30 November 2025, and decades should be the 2000s without an apostrophe.

Footnotes and endnotes cannot be accommodated. Please integrate these into the main text.

Hyphenation: Avoid using hyphens wherever possible, unless doing so makes the text confusing.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.

Omit apostrophes in plurals, for example 1950s, MPs.

Avoid too much emphasis. Italics should be used sparingly for emphasis.

Replace parochialisms such as ‘in this country’ or ‘this year’ with the country name or specific year.

Try to use gender sensitive formulations.

Unnumbered lists should not have more than one level, i.e. do not use sub-lists within unnumbered lists.

Please ensure that all references cited in the text are also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

For quotations and references use the APA style (7th ed.):

One author: (Tuyen, 2025, p. 84)

Two authors: (Jasrotia & Singh, 2023)

Three or more authors: (Rogowski et al., 2022)

Quotations/extracts must be an exact reproduction of the original in both spelling and punctuation even if this conflicts with journal style. For quotations of fewer than 40 words, double quotation marks are required around the words, and the quotation is incorporated into the text. For quotations exceeding 40 words, the quotation should be written on a new line, and the entire block should be indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. Any notes or editorial comment within the extracts should appear in square brackets and any omissions should be indicated by 3 dots in square brackets. Ensure that opening quotation marks are distinguished from closing quotation marks.

Combine all bibliographical details and your data sources in a list of references. Note the following examples as an orientation:

Journal Article

Book

Cohen, E. (2004). Contemporary tourism: Diversity and change. Elsevier.

Chapter in Edited Book

Andriotis, K. (2021). Introduction. In K. Andriotis (Ed.), Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism (pp. 1-21). CABI.

Conference Paper

Zemla, M. (2025, June 25-28). Managing overtourism in European cities: Systematic literature review results [Conference presentation]. ICOT2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://iatour.org/icot2025/

Doctoral Dissertation

Godfrey, K. B. (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: Towards a sustainable framework [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Oxford Brookes University.

Webpage on a website

More than one contribution by the same author

Arrange in date order, including author name for each entry.

When author has two or more publications in the same year

Insert mathematical equations and variables throughout your document only by use of the equation editor of your word processor.

The publisher will copy and edit the text, and the layout will be determined by the journal style.

The corresponding author submits the manuscript to the online submission system of the journal available at: https://jqrt.online/publish/submit-your-article/

Please note the following guidelines as they pertain to the acceptance of your research note for the peer review process:

Research notes should not exceed 2,000-4,000 words in total length. Figures and tables are included in the word count and are counted at 300 words each.
An abstract between 100 and 150 words should indicate the motivation of the work, the method, the most important results and conclusions.
List three to six characteristic keywords for your research note.
Add the following information on a separate sheet or preferably in a separate file: the title of the paper, the names of all authors, one correspondence address including an email address and affiliation as well as the affiliations of any further authors of the research note.
Use only the title of the research note as the heading of the submitted typescript, do not add your name/s or address/es. Avoid formulations like ‘In my article dating back to 2000 I have already shown …’ to facilitate the anonymous referee process.

Copyright and permission: Permission to reproduce from copyright material is required if the quoted extract exceeds 300 words. This is only a rough estimation, and permission should be sought from the publisher of any published material if in doubt. It is the author’s responsibility to seek written permission for any work in copyright and to settle any fees which may arise because of this. Acknowledgement of source, author and publisher must be made. Permissions should be cleared up before the article is submitted.

Libel: Please ensure that you do not make any defamatory or injurious statement about living people, institutions or other organizations which could result in libel claims.

We prefer Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Please ensure that you save the most recent version of your file. We suggest using the ‘Save As …’ option to save the most recent version and naming it with the date the file was created.

Present your file as simply as possible. Do not do any designing or formatting. Regardless of how smart the text looks on screen; any complex formatting will have to be stripped out. Complex formatting will take up more of your time and will also complicate and delay the production process.

All text should be ranged left, unjustified and without hyphenation for word division at the ends of lines.

Use hard carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs and to signify indents.

Be careful not to key in unnecessary spaces: only one space is necessary at the end of a sentence after a full point.

One space should be keyed after a comma or other punctuation and before an opening parenthesis. There is no space following full points after initials (Mr J.B. Smith) or between contractions.

Accents should be retained.

Commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence – for example: yesterday, however, at last, during the summer.

Dates should be written 30 November 2025, and decades should be the 2000s without an apostrophe.

Footnotes and endnotes cannot be accommodated. Please integrate these into the main text.

Hyphenation: Avoid using hyphens wherever possible, unless doing so makes the text confusing.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.

Omit apostrophes in plurals, for example 1950s, MPs.

Avoid too much emphasis. Italics should be used sparingly for emphasis.

Replace parochialisms such as ‘in this country’ or ‘this year’ with the country name or specific year.

Try to use gender sensitive formulations.

Unnumbered lists should not have more than one level, i.e. do not use sub-lists within unnumbered lists.

Please ensure that all references cited in the text are also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

For quotations and references use the APA style (7th ed.):

One author: (Tuyen, 2025, p. 84)

Two authors: (Jasrotia & Singh, 2023)

Three or more authors: (Rogowski et al., 2022)

Quotations/extracts must be an exact reproduction of the original in both spelling and punctuation even if this conflicts with journal style. For quotations of fewer than 40 words, double quotation marks are required around the words, and the quotation is incorporated into the text. For quotations exceeding 40 words, the quotation should be written on a new line, and the entire block should be indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. Any notes or editorial comment within the extracts should appear in square brackets and any omissions should be indicated by 3 dots in square brackets. Ensure that opening quotation marks are distinguished from closing quotation marks.

Combine all bibliographical details and your data sources in a list of references. Note the following examples as an orientation:

Journal Article

Book

Cohen, E. (2004). Contemporary tourism: Diversity and change. Elsevier.

Chapter in Edited Book

Andriotis, K. (2021). Introduction. In K. Andriotis (Ed.), Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism (pp. 1-21). CABI.

Conference Paper

Zemla, M. (2025, June 25-28). Managing overtourism in European cities: Systematic literature review results [Conference presentation]. ICOT2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://iatour.org/icot2025/

Doctoral Dissertation

Godfrey, K. B. (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: Towards a sustainable framework [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Oxford Brookes University.

Webpage on a website

More than one contribution by the same author

Arrange in date order, including author name for each entry.

When author has two or more publications in the same year

Insert mathematical equations and variables throughout your document only by use of the equation editor of your word processor.

The publisher will copy and edit the text, and the layout will be determined by the journal style.

The corresponding author submits the manuscript to the online submission system of the journal available at: https://jqrt.online/publish/submit-your-article/

Details of the book should be stated at the beginning of your review as in the following examples:

Chhabra, D. (2023). Resilience, authenticity and digital heritage tourism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 252 pages, hardcover, ISBN 9780367566630.

Stylidis, D., & Seetanah, B. (Eds.) (2021). Tourism planning and development in South Asia. Wallingford, UK: CABI. 176 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1-78924-669-8.

Indicate your correspondence address including email address.

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