Journal of Tourism History

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Tourism History is the primary venue for peer-reviewed scholarship covering all aspects of the evolution of tourism from earliest times to the postwar world.

Articles address all regions of the globe and often adopt interdisciplinary approaches for exploring the past.

The Journal of Tourism History is particularly (though not exclusively) interested in promoting the study of areas and subjects underrepresented in current scholarship, work for example examining the history of tourism in Asia and Africa, as well as developments that took place before the nineteenth century.

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, Journal of Tourism History also features short articles about particularly useful archival collections, book reviews, review essays, and round table discussions that explore developing areas of tourism scholarship.

The Editorial Board hopes that these additions will prompt further exploration of issues such as the vectors along which tourism spread, the evolution of specific types of ‘niche’ tourism, and the intersections of tourism history with the environment, medicine, politics, and more.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.201

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	14

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	21093

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	23

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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 Arts and Humanities, 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.

• Institutionalisation of tourism research and education: from the early 1900s to 2000s

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Metin, Nazmi

• The history of dark tourism

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Rudi, John, Daniel P., Alan, Adam T., Philip R.

• Empires of tourism: travel and rhetoric in Italian colonial Libya and Albania, 1911–1943

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Stephanie Malia

• Incidental tourism: British Imperial air travel in the 1930s

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Gordon

• Automobile organizations driving tourism in pre-independence Africa

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Gordon

• The hotel in history: evolving perspectives

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Kevin J., A. K., Daniel, Maurizio, Cédric, Molly W.

• Social media in travel, tourism and hospitality: theory, practice and cases

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Bistra

• Sport, tourism and history: current historiography and future prospects

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Mike

• Tourism and empire

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Shelley, Christopher, Waleed, Stephanie Malia, Gordon, Trevor, Eric G.E.

• The value of water: the origins and expansion of thermal tourism in Spain, 1750–2010

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Luis

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