Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Aims & Scope

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal.

It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context.

JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference.

Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC .

Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple 'ways of being', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being.

Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture.

JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.5

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.752

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	43

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7366

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	492

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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, Environmental Science 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.

• Backpacking: Diversity and Change

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Erik

• Urban regeneration through heritage tourism: cultural policies and strategic management

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Azadeh, Mahdi, Dallen J.

• The Role and Function of Narrative in Tourist Interaction

  Citation: 100

  Authors: Scott, Clare

• ‘Personal memory tourism’ and a wider exploration of the tourism−memory nexus

  Citation: 98

  Authors: Sabine

• Representing pace in tourism mobilities: staycations, Slow Travel and<i>The Amazing Race</i>

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Jennie Germann

• The Socio-cultural Impacts of Tourism Development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

  Citation: 94

  Authors: Joseph E.

• Tourists and pilgrims on their way to Santiago. Motives, Caminos and final destinations

  Citation: 93

  Authors: Rubén C., Xosé M.

• Alternative Literature and Tourist Experience: Travel and Tourist Weblogs

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Betsy A.

• Cultural tourism and poverty alleviation in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Wineaster

• Undoing Shame: Tourism and Women's Work in Turkey

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Hazel

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