Tourism Today is a peer-reviewed journal committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication and research ethics. To ensure authors and readers with a high-quality and ethical product, Tourism Today states the following principles for this statement of Publication Ethics and Malpractice.

Any article not in accordance with these standards will not be considered for publications in Tourism Today.
Tourism Today is concerned about plagiarism, research fabrication, and the improper use of animals and humans in the research process.

We reserve the right to use plagiarism detecting software for any submissions to the journal in order to screen
out any attempted plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Today will report any cases of
suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing. If the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Today finds that
an article submitted to Tourism Today contains falsified data, used humans or animals
improperly in the research process, or contains plagiarism, the person(s) submitting said research
will never again be considered for publication in Tourism Today as an author or co-author for a
peer-reviewed article.

Authors submitting articles for consideration to Tourism Today have specific responsibilities.
• Authors must ensure that what they submit is original and has not been submitted
elsewhere.
• All data sources and quotations must be appropriately credited and referenced.
• In addition, authors bear the responsibility for the editing of language before the article is
submitted to Tourism Today.
• Authors are responsible upon submission to Tourism Today that what is submitted is
original and that any parts that have been taken from other works are appropriately
credited and referenced.
• Authors must also disclose financial or other conflicts of interest that may have a
potential for influencing the interpretation of data.
• Any financial support for authors’ projects must be disclosed.
• Any time an author discovers a significant error, she or he is obliged to immediately
inform the Editor-in-Chief, so that remedial action may take place.
• Submitting an article to more than one publication at any one time is a breach of ethics
and if Tourism Today discovers this breach, the article will not be published in Tourism
Today.
The Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Today has specific responsibilities.
• The Editor-in-Chief must guarantee an impartial double-blind peer-review of all the
articles submitted for publication, with the exception of conference reviews and book
reviews.
• The Editor-in-Chief will endeavor to prevent any possible conflicts of interests between
the authors or papers submitted for consideration to the journal and the people involved
in the editorial/review process.
Tourism Today’s Reviewers have specific responsibilities.
• Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts based solely on the content of what is submitted to
Tourism Today, with no regard to gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnic origin,
citizenship, religion, or political attitudes/opinions of the author(s).
• Reviewers must ensure that all information related to manuscripts submitted to Tourism
Today is kept confidential.
• Additionally, reviewers are required to report to the Editor-in-Chief immediately any
suspected copyright infringement and plagiarism.
• Reviewers are required to evaluate the submitted works objectively, presenting their
objective assessments of submitted works in written reviews with criticisms explained in
a clear way.
• A reviewer who feels, for whatever reason, that she/he cannot review a manuscript in an
impartial way must notify the Editor-in-Chief to excuse herself/himself from the review
process.