
Academic Journal
Q1Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism
About Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism
Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism is a scholarly journal published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.436 and H-index of 7.
Coverage: 2020-2025. Research categories: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Culinary Culture and Tourism; Hospitality and Tourism Education; Religious Tourism and Spaces.
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Recent Research Articles
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Several birds with one stone: motivations, constraints and negotiation for regenerative tourism consumption
Lariza Corral-Gonzalez, Judith Cavazos-Arroyo, Josefa García-Mestanza
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0017‘Being a woman’ in the gastronomy industry: entrepreneurial experiences of women from a cultural tourism destination
Gökhan Yilmaz, Yurdanur Yumuk, Ayşe Şahin-Yilmaz
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0027The hotel industry in Mauritius managing uncertainties and ensuring recovery
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Deepa Gokulsing, Satabdee Banerjee, Sheereen Fauzel et al.
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0015Tourists’ green tourism practices: the influence of spiritual beliefs and destination respect – an exploratory study
Tran Tuyen
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0026Tourism potential assessment and product–market nexus in developing ethnic minority destinations
Cora Un In Wong, Lianping Ren, Suh-hee Choi
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0019A low-tech innovation and its positive impact upon housekeeping in hotel staff
Klaas Koerten, Ines Schneider, Craig Webster
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0021Book Review: Raj, R. and Griffin K. (eds), Sustainable Events Management (CABI, UK 2024) 208 pp.
Marie Delaplace
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0023Destination marketing organization website features: cross-continental comparative analysis
Youssef El Archi, Brahim Benbba, Lucília Cardoso, Carla Fraga et al.
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0020Book review: Bruce Prideaux and David Beirman (eds), Handbook on Crisis and Disaster Management in Tourism (Edward Elgar 2024) 430 pp.
Peter Mason
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0025Barriers challenging social gastronomy entrepreneurs
Duygu Celebi, Ige Pirnar, Aylin Caliskan
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0016Book review: Susan L. Slocum (ed), Inclusion in Tourism: Understanding Institutional Discrimination and Bias (Routledge, 2024) 216 pp.
Anna Farmaki
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0024Transformational job-policies as pathways to a degrowth future in tourism? Understanding the workers’ perspective
Moritz Langer, Sebastian Amrhein
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0018Book Review: Nunkoo, R., Juwaheer, T.D., and Seyfi, S. (eds), A Research Agenda for the Social Impacts of Tourism (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK 2024) 280 pp.
Juliana Rodrigues Vieira Tkatch
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.0022Editorial
Konstantinos Andriotis
2025-10-11 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2025.01.00Island destination workforce development and inclusion
Zeenaz Hussain, Joseph Lema, Jerome Agrusa
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.02Half-century qualitative research in tourism and hospitality: a bibliometric analysis
Fatemeh Azizi, Zahed Ghaderi, Fatemeh Shekari
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.01Tourism and depression: coping strategies and therapeutic opportunities in emerging contexts
Carlos Monterrubio, Ilse N. Suárez-Bata, Rafael Hernández-Espinosa
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.03Opportunities and challenges for domestic tourism development in South Wollo, Ethiopia
Tesfaye Fentaw Nigatu, Zelalem Getnet Ambaw, Molla Nigus Argaw, Alexander Trupp et al.
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.04From the Editor: Bibliographic and systematic reviews in tourism and hospitality
Konstantinos Andriotis
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.00F. Higgins-Desbiolles, L.-A. Blanchard and Y. Urbain, Peace Through Tourism: Critical Reflections on the Intersection Between Peace, Justice and Sustainable Development (Routledge 2023) 452 pp.
Mohanna Nikbin
2024-12-16 · DOI: 10.4337/jqrt.2024.02.07Reviews
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