Aims and Scope

Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Cultural Research (JHTCR) is an international open access peer-reviewed quarterly journal focused on the multidimensional global facets of hospitality and tourism industry and education as well as the rich cultural studies from countries around the world. It also provides the platform for theoretical, applied and academic studies that address hospitality, tourism and cultural issues. As the largest industry in the world covering diverse sectors, this journal encompasses the social, cultural and economic aspects of tourism anchored on inter-disciplinary approach to research. With the ever-changing and challenging nature of tourism and complex perspectives of tourists, this journal allows researchers, hospitality industry stakeholders, hospitality management educators, practitioners and students to apply multiple research designs to describe, analyze and evaluate the history, current state and the future directions of hospitality and tourism industry.

It publishes high quality research papers that uses quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. The journal targets a diverse spectrum of readers including hospitality and tourism stakehoders, hospitality and tourism educators and students, tourism development councils and officers, country tourism planners and developers, hospitality industry researchers, among others.

The journal employs rigorous double-blind review to ensure quality publications. Authors receive comment through feedforward communication approach. It is the prime objective of the reviewers to help authors improve the quality of the papers. As the journal promotes internationalization and collaboration, the multi-dimensional perspectives of the author and reviewers add high value to the research article. Moreover, the journal has solid support system for copyediting and formatting. The journal ensures that the research articles are within the standards of international publication.

The journal covers, but not limited to, the following: