Current Issues in Tourism

Aims & Scope

Current Issues in Tourism encourages in-depth discussion and critique of key questions within the subject.

It offers a readable format for extended peer-reviewed papers, commentaries, letters and reviews, all designed to spark off further debate.

It contains both applied and theoretical work that addresses tourism inquiry, method and practice.

Lively and rigorous, it welcomes contributions from the broad gamut of subjects that make up the stuff of tourism studies.

Current Issues in Tourism is designed to be accessible to both new and experienced researchers and practitioners on a global basis.

The principal aims of the journal are to: encourage the full range of approaches which are available to the study of tourism; bring together researchers from different subject backgrounds for interdisciplinary and postdisciplinary debate; develop the theoretical base on which the study of tourism is built; provide a basis for the development of critical approaches to the study of tourism; disseminate new approaches, concepts, frameworks, methods, models and practices which may be developed in the study of tourism; and promote new research.

In addition to general papers, Current Issues in Tourism features four other sections - CIT Research Letters, CIT Research Notes, CIT Reviews and Current Issues in Method and Practice.

To find out more about these sections, including how to submit material, please click here .

New for 2017 the journal has introduced Current Issues in Asian Tourism (CIAT), 3 issues dedicated to papers on tourism in Asia.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4.6
2024	5.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.703

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	123

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1906

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7624

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Airbnb: disruptive innovation and the rise of an informal tourism accommodation sector

  Citation: 1295

  Authors: Daniel

• Destination Competitiveness: Determinants and Indicators

  Citation: 1042

  Authors: Larry, Chulwon

• New realities: a systematic literature review on virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism research

  Citation: 689

  Authors: Ryan, Catheryn

• Social media as a destination marketing tool: its use by national tourism organisations

  Citation: 663

  Authors: Stephanie, Stephen John, Dimitrios

• The effect of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) risk perception on behavioural intention towards ‘untact’ tourism in South Korea during the first wave of the pandemic (March 2020)

  Citation: 562

  Authors: So Young, Po-Ju

• Travel risk perception and travel behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020: a case study of the DACH region

  Citation: 462

  Authors: Larissa, Roman

• Consumer behaviour in tourism: Concepts, influences and opportunities

  Citation: 460

  Authors: Scott A., Girish, Miguel

• The impact of social media influencers on travel decisions: the role of trust in consumer decision journey

  Citation: 435

  Authors: Rebeka-Anna, Zsuzsa, Dan-Cristian, Mónika-Anetta

• Has the tourism-led growth hypothesis been validated? A literature review

  Citation: 423

  Authors: Juan Gabriel, Isabel, Manuela

• Crisis events in tourism: subjects of crisis in tourism

  Citation: 420

  Authors: C. Michael

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