Journal profile · HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
ISSN 1476-6825 · eISSN 1747-7654 · Taylor & Francis
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.87; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 197 days to acceptance (92 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 8% (journal website); 46 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Religious Tourism and Spaces and Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development, together about 46.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple 'ways of being', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: Adopting a multidisciplinary approach Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice Embracing an inclusive definition of culture Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives Peer Review Statement Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Click here to be taken to the submissions website.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United Kingdom 3, Mainland China 1, United States 1, Italy 1, Spain 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchSocial Sciences28.1%
- Religious Tourism and SpacesSocial Sciences10.4%
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and DevelopmentSocial Sciences7.7%
- Sport and Mega-Event ImpactsSocial Sciences6.7%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities5.8%
- Culinary Culture and TourismAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.3%
- Cruise Tourism Development and ManagementSocial Sciences5%
- Travel Writing and LiteratureArts and Humanities3.4%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC, CABI - Agricultural Economics Database, Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (Online), Environmental Impact, Forest Science Database, Forestry Abstracts (Online), Global Health, InfoTree, Leisure Tourism Database, Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Rural Development Abstracts (Online), Soil Science Database, Soils and Fertilizers (Online), EBSCOhost - Associates Program Source Plus, Current Abstracts, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, Hospitality & Tourism Index, SocINDEX, SocINDEX with Full Text, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Vocational Studies Complete, CSA Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Sustainability Science Abstracts
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
- Impact factor
- 2.87LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.66Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.36LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.36Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 384OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.1%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 43LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 80,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 823 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 48 | 12 | 16 |
| 2025 | 46 | 6 | 67 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6 | 49 |
| 2023 | 34 | 9 | 326 |
| 2022 | 38 | 5 | 363 |
| 2021 | 50 | 5 | 780 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
197 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 114 days – 346 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (92 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 211 days
- Sample
- 92 articles with submission and acceptance dates (99 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 38 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 144 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Taylor & Francis Open Select). Model summary
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the disc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Statement
Double anonymized peer review; online submission via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Model summary
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1476-6825
- Electronic ISSN
- 1747-7654
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 24, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
What CAS zone is Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 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 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.87; CiteScore 6.4, h-index 55.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change?
Based on the dates recorded on 92 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 197 days (interquartile range 114–346 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 8%. 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.
What JCR quartile is Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Management.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change based?
Of the 9 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (3), Mainland China (1) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .