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.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zoneZone 4 · Management2025 upgraded edition, major category · 2026 Xinrui edition Zone 4 · Management
Review timeabout 24 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year22025 · OpenAlex count

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

  1. Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences15.6%
  2. Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchSocial Sciences11.7%
  3. Business, Innovation, and EconomyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
  4. Finance, Taxation, and GovernanceEnvironmental Science8.9%
  5. Regional Development and InnovationSocial Sciences7.8%
  6. Organizational Management and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting5%
  7. Archaeology and Cultural HeritageSocial Sciences3.9%
  8. 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
LevelCategoryZone
MajorManagementZone 4
MinorHospitality, Leisure, Sport & TourismZone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: no

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
LevelCategoryZone
MajorManagementZone 4
MinorHospitality, Leisure, Sport & TourismZone 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

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2025220
20219912

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

Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ

Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJNo APCNoPublisher's own license
LetPubNo APCNo—

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
  1. artículosArtículosLength not stated
Publisher website
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

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: .