Journal profile · HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Gran Tour
ISSN 2172-8690 · Universidad de Murcia · Spain
Gran Tour: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 24 weeks (community reports); 2 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Gran Tour is published by Universidad de Murcia and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research and Business, Innovation, and Economy, together about 38% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
1. APPROACH AND SCOPE The Faculty of Tourism of the University of Murcia is committed to the scientific approach applied in its teachings and, in 2010, created a new publication whose vocation is the dissemination of knowledge about tourism. Gran Tour, Tourist Research Magazine, brings together works from the different sciences that converge in the study of Tourism. For this reason, it has a multidisciplinary vocation and is aimed at researchers, experts and professionals from universities, national and international organizations, research centers and any other institution linked to research and knowledge transfer in the different areas of tourism. 2. ETHICAL COMMITMENT The policy of the journal will be guided by the ETHICAL COMMITMENT of scientific research. A code of conduct aimed at the parties involved in the management and publication of scientific results: Editorial Board, authorsand reviewers of the works. - The Editorial Board must ensure its scientific quality, avoid bad practices in the publication of research results and manage the edition of the works received in a reasonable time. - The authors / researchers. Authors are those researchers who have participated in the intervention in all phases (structure, writing and review of the work that is submitted for evaluation), coordination with the rest of the authors, contribution to obtaining funds, compilation and analysis of data. Therefore, it is recommended to agree on the order of signature prior to writing the article. The Commitments of the authors affect: - Confirm the absence of data manipulation, the consistency and reliability of the research, and the originality of the manuscript.- Avoid simultaneous submission to multiple journals for review.- Provide data to ensure transparency with research funding sources.- Adjust the text to the established publication standards, collaborating in an agile way in the corrections and responding to the acceptance or rejection and the suggestions of the reviewers.- External Evaluators / Reviewers, must be experts on the subject being evaluated and are of vital importance in scientific journals because they ensure the selection of the best manuscripts. Reviews are done on a voluntary basis by peers and anonymously. Their commitment affects: Ensuring that the manuscript represents a contribution to the better development of the topic it addressed; provide the editors and authors with objective information about the manuscript, both at the content and fo
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences15.6%
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchSocial Sciences11.7%
- Business, Innovation, and EconomyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
- Finance, Taxation, and GovernanceEnvironmental Science8.9%
- Regional Development and InnovationSocial Sciences7.8%
- Organizational Management and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting5%
- Archaeology and Cultural HeritageSocial Sciences3.9%
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: LATINDEX (Catálogo), Qualis CAPES, JCR, DICE, ÍnDICEs-CSIC, ISOC, DIALNET, DULCINEA, MIAR, ROMEO SHERPA CiteFactor, CIRET, COPAC (Reino Unido), SUDOC (Francia), ZDB (Alemania), OCLC WorldCat, OUM (Malasia), SUNCAT (Reino Unido), DATAESTUR
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 18LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 86 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 | 12 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | Publisher's own license | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- artículosArtículosLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePeer review
- Peer review
The journal maintains an interdisciplinary pool of reviewers with international affiliations, registered on the journal website by their interests and review specialties. Model summary
En consonancia con su interés de publicación, la revista cuenta con un banco de evaluadores interdisciplinar cuya afiliación tiene carácter internacional.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universidad de Murcia
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- ISSN
- 2172-8690
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Gran Tour
What CAS zone is Gran Tour in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Gran Tour is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Gran Tour?
Authors report an average review time of about 24 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Gran Tour?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Gran Tour is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Gran Tour open access, and what is the APC?
Gran Tour is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .