Journal On Tourism & Sustainability
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal for tourism research that advances sustainable development, published by OTS Academy.
Scope and mission
Tourism research with sustainable development at the centre
JOTS publishes multidisciplinary tourism scholarship, including theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and applied work. The journal is especially focused on tourism as a practical route into sustainable development, policy learning, destination management, and community impact.
- Tourism development, policy, planning, marketing, and demand
- Eco-tourism, rural tourism, homestays, cultural experiences, and destination management
- Tourism impacts on communities, cultures, economies, and environments
- Community-based, wellness, religious, dark, mountain, and volunteer tourism
- Research methods, conservation, responsible travel, and sustainability policy
The journal publishes biannual issues and welcomes research from established academics, early-career scholars, and practitioners whose work meets academic review standards.
Journal facts
ISSN / ISSN-L: 2515-6780. Publisher: OTS Academy, 8 Hutchcombe Farm Close, Oxford, OX2 9HG, United Kingdom. Publication schedule: two issues per year, normally May-June and November-December.
Access, fees, and licence
JOTS is open access and uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Authors do not pay submission charges, article processing charges, author fees, page fees, colour fees, or publication fees.
Review and publication
Submissions are handled through double-anonymous peer review. The journal reports an average publication time of about fourteen weeks, subject to editorial assessment, reviewer availability, revision quality, and production checks.
Identifiers and indexing
The journal uses Zenodo DOI infrastructure, including the 10.5281/zenodo prefix for archived records, and is listed in DOAJ.