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Aim and scope: The International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research (IJCTR) is a peer-reviewed international journal published in English and Turkish. It aims publishing high quality research studies in all related areas of tourism, including economics, business, management, history, geography, sociology, social psychology, ethics, etc.
The scope of IJCTR encompasses theoretical, empirical or policy oriented research articles, original research reports, reviews, scientific commentaries in the fields of tourism including both controversial and innovative ideas and detailed contributions from other directly related fields such as econometric, economic development, trade and the environment and political economy.
Manuscripts are reviewed in an unbiased manner, receiving prompt attention by the editorial office and its referees. After a preliminary assessment of the suitability of the paper by the Editors, any paper will follow a double-blinded peer review process. The goal of the Editorial Office is to provide the referees' reports, and the final decision, within ten weeks since submission.
The whole process will be handled by the Editors, to whom all inquiries should be addressed. Articles for consideration should be submitted using the online submission form. Submissions through e-mail will not be considered. Submission is electronic only.
The IJCTR is committed to keeping the content of all submissions confidential until the publication date. Although we make every possible effort to ensure reviewers honor their confidentiality commitments, we cannot be held responsible for the conduct of reviewers. Reviewers should be aware that it is our policy to keep their names confidential, and that we do our utmost to ensure this confidentiality.
The IJCTR is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their works to the IJCTR for publication as original articles attest that the submitted works represent their authors' contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. The authors acknowledge that they have disclosed all and any actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it. In the same manner, the IJCTR is committed to objective and fair peer-review of the submitted works and to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed material.
IJCTR's general principles of specified purposes are listed below:
IJCTR publishes biannually. IJCTR publishes in Turkish and English. Scientific articles are published and empirical (practical/experimental) researches are given priority in the journal. The responsibility of opinions expressed in articles entirely belong to the authors The studies submitted to IJCTR for publications must not be published in other journals before. The studies submitted to IJCTR should be prepared by entirely obeying the scientific ethics rules. All copyrights related to publish articles belong to the journal. Copyright fees or any other payments under another name are not paid to the authors for their articles. The authors who submit studies to the journal are considered as agreed not to demand this kind of claims.


Last Issue
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
The first aim of this study is to determine the motivations and experiences of camel wrestling festival participants evaluated in event tourism. The second aim is to determine motivation of the participants attending the other festivals and to reveal similarities[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
There are some features that distinguish tourist guiding from other occupations. Reasons such as being based on physical strength, requiring continuous development, being seasonal occupation and work-family conflict negatively affect the occupational commitment level of tourist guides and cause them[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
Many of the trips are for the purposes of "travel, entertainment, sports and cultural activities", "visiting relatives and friends" and "shopping". They move in with friends and relatives visit one of the highlights of tourism in Turkey. However, thoughts that[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
The relationship of information and communication technologies with tourism has been become intense in the entire process from pre-travel to post-travel. This phenomenon, which previously showed its effect mostly in urban destinations, has begun to gain a place in rural[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
It is well known that one of the most important income sources of a country is tourism activities. It is thought that fossil fuel-based power generation plants will have negative effects on nature and human health as the increasing tourism[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
With the rapid developmentsin the tourism sector, new methods and techniques have been brought to theagenda to reduce the negativities. One of these methods is the “carryingcapacity” that tourism has its own starting point and boundaries and that itcan determine[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
The aim of this study is to investigate the problems experienced by professional tourist guides in the destinations they visit for the first time. The pattern of this study using qualitative research methods is phenomenology. The data of the study[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, food and beverage enterprises, like all businesses operating under the tourism industry, were negatively affected and faced with a major crisis. Therefore, the decisions that the food and beverage enterprises take in this crisis period[…]
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International Journal of Contemporary Tourism Research,Year 2020Volume 4Issue 2
Dec 30, 2020 | 00:00 am
İzmir is a city in Western Turkey and famous for its coastal and cultural tourism. Industry, agriculture, trade and tourism are the main sectors in İzmir’s districts outside the central city. The goal of this study is to reveal the[…]
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