Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

About the Journal

 Hospitality business is a rapidly growing and dynamic industry. Tourism and hospitality encompasses transportation, lodging, food, beverage, sightseeing, recreation and the associated industries. The growing competition and rise in consumer expectations have enforced gradual transformations in the industry which is compounded by advent of new technologies and dynamic corporate governance. In this context it is important for all the stake holders to have up to date knowledge involving multiple disciplines and share their explorations.

Journal of Tourism and Hospitality is an international peer reviewed journal which focuses on current trends presenting new interpretations of social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism and hospitality. The journal strives to bring to the forefront, the frontiers in the industry with major focus on the current happenings and research trends.

The journal apprises the stakeholders of tourism and hospitality industry with the latest developments, emerging challenges while facilitating the exchange of individual concepts and ideas and enables the current and prospective researchers to connect with people who run and manage the industry as well as policy makers.

With the overwhelming support of the editors, reviewers and contributing authors, the journal has successfully released several issues of articles since the year 2012 which function as a repository of systematic knowledgebase for identifying the emerging challenges, current research gaps as well as postulation of new research hypothesis/ proposals/programs.

All the manuscripts are screened by the eminent editorial board members who ensure quality and standard of the articles with relevance to the current research focus. The manuscripts are subjected to review and editorial processing prior to publication.

Fast Editorial Review Process

Journal of Tourism and Hospitality is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.

Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.