Focus and Scope | International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management Studies

The International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management Studies (IJTHMS) is a social science journal concentrating on the scholarly aspects on tourism and hospitality management. Although aiming towards a synthesis between theory and practice, the International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management Studies (IJTHMS) is primarily dedicated to developing theoretical constructs. Its strategies are to encourage and encourage offerings from different disciplines; to serve as a forum through which they may interact; and thus to expand the knowledge boundaries and contribute to the literature on hospitality and tourism in the social sciences. In this position, the International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management Studies (IJTHMS) is both organized and structured by the research efforts of a multidisciplinary group of scholars.

The scope of the journal is international and encompasses research into tourism and hospitality management aspects as well as the development of new research approaches. It continues to include high quality research papers in any area of tourism and hospitality management, including reviews of literature in the field and empirical papers on tourism issues.

The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism and hospitality management, such as economics, marketing, sociology, management and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double blind peer review by the international research community.