Scientific Journals on Tourism

A selection of scientific publications on tourism produced by universities, study centres and official institutions.

Journal of Tourism Analysis

Asociación española de expertos científicos en turismo (AECIT).
Six-monthly publication on international social sciences, with the mission of contributing to understanding tourism from a transversal and multidisciplinary viewpoint. The journal also aspires to contribute to the construction of quality knowledge of technical and conceptual aspects, methodologies, and advances in their application from an integrating and critical approach.

Cuadernos de turismo

University of Murcia.
Six-monthly publication for universities, national and international bodies, professionals, and people interested in the study of tourism. Subjects include geographical, town planning, economic, ecological and educational aspects relating to tourism activities.

Gran Tour

Tourism Department. University of Murcia. Six-monthly publication gathering papers from the different sciences that converge in the study of tourism. Multidisciplinary in nature, it is intended for researchers, experts and professionals to research and knowledge transfer in the different areas of tourism.

Investigaciones Turísticas

University Tourism Research Institute. University of Alicante.
Six-monthly publication intended to promote research, reflection and an understanding of the tourism industry from an open, multidisciplinary perspective. It proposes interpreting tourism and the processes it involves from an Ibero-American point of view, and in a global context.

PASOS

University Institute of Social Research and Tourism of the University of La Laguna and the University of Maia.Four-monthly publication, specialising in the academic and business analysis of the different processes involved in the tourism system, with a special interest in the uses tourism makes of culture, nature and the territory, people, towns and their spaces, and heritage as a whole.

Revista General del Derecho del Turismo

IUSTEL.A periodical publication on tourism law, offering an understanding of each legal discipline. Each issue includes sections on scientific studies, jurisprudential commentaries and analysis, comments on new national and international legislation, and news and reviews of new books and articles on the subject.

Enlightening Tourism. A pathmaking journal

University of Huelva. Six-monthly publication for readers in the scholarly community who deal with different tourism sectors, both at the macro and micro-level, as well as for professionals in this industry. It proposes promoting and enhancing research in all fields of the tourism industry. The material published in ET covers all scientific, conceptual and applied disciplines related to the tourism business.

RITUREM. Revista internacional de turismo, empresa y territorio

University of Córdoba. Six-monthly publication with a mixed international character, academic-scientific and technical-professional. It has contents focused on the phenomenon of tourism and its diverse manifestations, from different areas of knowledge (Economic and Business Sciences, Social Sciences, Geography, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Sociology, Psychology, Translation and Interpretation, etc.).

Tourism & heritage

Tourism, Culture and Territory Research Group (TURCiT). CETT-UB. Annual publication. Its goal is to share academic knowledge about cultural and heritage tourism. The main research lines of THJ are Cultural Tourism, Educational Tourism, Media & Literary Tourism and Gastronomic Tourism with tourism as mainstay.

ROTUR: revista de Ocio y Turismo

University of A Coruña.
Biannual publication that aims to disseminate scientific studies related to the thematic areas of leisure and tourism. It is an open access publication with an international scope, whose main purpose is to foster, from a clearly multidisciplinary perspective, research and debate in the context of tourism activity.