About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal is an international platform for the development of transdisciplinary studies on tourism, culture and territorial development. Almatourism aims to improve the convergence and the integration of different disciplines studying the tourism sector as an instrument to disseminate the research and academic results internationally, with special attention of the Neo-latin and Mediterranean area. In particular, the Journal publishes articles concerning tourism-related cultural issues, both at a theoretical and a practical level. Different disciplinary approaches are present, such as history, geography, economics, statistics, sociology, environment studies, law, and more in general all the approaches in the social sciences and humanities field. The articles are published in English and Italian; contributions in English and other languages, such as French, Spanish, or German may be accepted. Two main strategic issues concerning tourism research in a local development perspective especially covered by the journal are:

  1. the relationship between tourism and cultural heritage in an economic perspective, in which professional and institutional skills, organisational and managerial capabilities, and rigorous, deductive ways of reasoning play a crucial role;
  2. the relationship between tourism and cultural heritage in a humanistic perspective, in which the geographical and historical sedimentations of places are more relevant, and theoretical inductive reasoning prevails. This approach is also related to effective relationships with the stakeholders through quali-quantitative communication tools.

Therefore, the research fields characterizing the Journal are related to the following main themes:

  • Analysis of demand and supply in tourism destinations
  • Anthropology of Tourism
  • Competitive Strategies in Tourism
  • Corporate finance for tourism firms
  • Cultural anthropology
  • Cultural Geography
  • Destination Marketing
  • Economy of arts and heritage
  • Financial accounting in tourism firms
  • Financial services and investment in the tourism sector
  • Geography of Development and Tourism Systems
  • Geomarketing
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Governance and Policies of Tourism
  • Heritage and local development
  • History of consumption and fashions
  • History of tourism, holidays and recreation
  • Innovation management in Tourism
  • International management in Tourism
  • Investment and financing decisions in tourism firms
  • Land organisation and planning
  • Law for arts
  • New Economic Geography (related to tourism and culture)
  • Organization and Strategy in Tourism
  • Pricing: bundling or unbundling the tourism offer
  • Sense of places and cultural tourism
  • Service Management
  • Social, ethical and environmental accounting and reporting in tourism firms
  • Sociology of Tourism
  • Statistics for Tourism
  • Territorial Marketing
  • Tourism Economics
  • Tourism Geography
  • Tourism Law
  • Virtual tourist communities
  • Web-based Services for tourism marketing

Peer Review Process

Submitted papers will undergo plagiarism checks throught iThenticate, then they will be evaluated by Almatourism Editorial Team. After the first rating, selected works will undergo a double-blind peer review process with external reviewers. This means that the reviewers and the authors don’t know each other identity. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that manuscripts submitted on Almatourism platform are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. Reviewers are chosen on the base of their expertise and knowledge on the selected paper topics.

Publication Frequency

Almatourism is a semiannual journal, it publishes in June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Referees

2009

  • Claudio Minca (University of London)
  • Cosimo Notarstefano (Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law and Tourism Law)
  • Antonello Scorcu (Università di Bologna)
  • Giusto Traina (Università Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbona)

2010

  • Cristina Bernini (Università di Bologna)
  • Guido Candela (Università di Bologna)
  • Silvia Grandi (Università di Modena e Reggio dell’Emilia)
  • Cosimo Notarstefano (Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law and Tourism Law)
  • Antonello Scorcu (Università di Bologna)

2011

  • Fiorella Dallari (Università di Bologna)
  • Claudio Minca (University of London)
  • Paolo Rondelli (Council of Europe)
  • Giusto Traina (Università Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbona)
  • Vincent Zammit (Institute of Tourism Studies, Malta)

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

The journal is available in the following libraries:

  • AlmaDL Journals Università di Bologna
  • Biblioteca Centralizzata Rimini Campus Università di Bologna
  • British Library (London, UK)
  • Cambrige University Library (UK)
  • University College London Library (UK)
  • City University London Library (UK)
  • Imperial College London Library (UK)
  • Cardiff University Libraries (UK)
  • University of Sheffield Library (UK)
  • Univerity of Glasgow Library (UK)
  • University of Strathclyde Library (Glasgow, UK)
  • University of Hull Library (UK)
  • University of Bath Library (UK)
  • University of Stirling Library (UK)
  • Trinity College Library Dublin (IRL)
  • Biblioteca Universitaria di Lugano (CH)
  • REBIUN Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias (ES)
  • Biblioteca Universidad de Sevilla (ES)
  • Biblioteca Universitat de València (ES)
  • Biblioteca Universitat de Les Illes Balears (ES)
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel (B)
  • National Library of Sweden (S)
  • University of Harvard Libraries (USA)
  • MIT Libraries (USA)
  • University of California Berkeley Library (USA)
  • Princeton University Library (USA)
  • Yale University Library (USA)
  • Columbia University Libraries (USA)
  • Brown University Library (USA)
  • University of Washington Libraries (USA)
  • University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries (USA)
  • Wittenberg University Library (USA)
  • San José State University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Library (USA)
  • Queen’s University Library (CND)
  • University of Ottawa Library (CND)
  • Bibliothèques Université de Montréal (CND)
  • University of Toronto Libraries (CND)
  • University of Saskatchewan (CND)
  • National Library of Australia (AUS)
  • The University of Melbourne Library (AUS)
  • Australian Catholic University (AUS)
  • Griffith University Library (AUS)
  • The University of Queensland Library (AUS)
  • National Taiwan Normal University Library (TW)
  • Chung Yuan Christian University Library (TW)
  • Poding Memorial Library Chaoyang University of Technology (TW)
  • National Institue of Tourism and Hospitality Management (IN)

Ethics

Almatourism adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Campus di Rimini
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Corso d’Augusto, 237
47921 - Rimini (Italy)

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