The primary aim of GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences (ATRSS) is to provide a high-quality, continuous academic platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to disseminate their original work. The journal publishes original articles, including theoretical and empirical research papers, review reports, and case studies.

ATRSS focuses on publishing both qualitative and quantitative research that critically examines the creation and consumption of leisure. The journal welcomes submissions covering a wide range of topics within sports, travel and tourism, hospitality, media (including digital media), events, heritage, and the arts.

Furthermore, ATRSS encourages contributions that foster interdisciplinary knowledge integration in tourism and recreation by incorporating perspectives from fields such as hospitality, recreation, events, and sports. The journal particularly values studies addressing contemporary societal issues from a holistic viewpoint. Depending on the research focus, articles may be situated within a single academic discipline or adopt an integrative approach across disciplines such as the social sciences, natural sciences, and environmental studies.

ATRSS is a peer-reviewed, academic, international electronic journal, and its publication languages are English and Turkish.

Submission regarding the following items will be rejected without review:

1. Studies that solely use data from social media, applications (e.g., Booking, TripAdvisor), or Google (user reviews).
2. Review articles or studies that only include systematic literature analyses (those that do not offer a new contribution to the topic), or studies containing bibliometric analyses.
3. Landscape architecture, gastronomy and sports studies that do not establish a clear connection with leisure or recreation and focus on technical and highly specific topics within their own fields.

The journal accepts submissions on the following topics:

Tourism Planning and Policies: Tourism destination management, sustainable tourism strategies, rural and urban tourism planning, tourism policy development, stakeholder participation in tourism planning.

Recreation Planning and Management: Planning of indoor and outdoor recreational spaces, social impacts of recreational activities, nature-based recreation, community-based recreation programs, accessibility and participation in recreation planning.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Tourism, and Recreation: Spatial analyses in tourism, GIS applications in destination management, mapping and analysis of tourist spaces, suitability studies for outdoor recreation activities, use of geographic data in tourism and recreation planning.

Landscape and Recreation Relationship: Urban landscape planning, recreational use of natural landscapes, ecological landscape design, cultural landscapes in tourism, green infrastructure in recreation planning.

Sports and Recreation: Sports tourism, outdoor sports events, sports management, sports facility planning, health and well-being through sports.

Nature-Based Tourism: Ecotourism, sustainable nature tourism practices, extreme sports and nature-based activities, adventure tourism planning and management, risk management in nature-based tourism.

Cultural and Heritage Tourism: Evaluation of cultural heritage sites in terms of tourism and recreation, sustainable management of tangible and intangible heritage, development of cultural tourism, heritage interpretation and community participation.

Tourism Technologies: Smart tourism applications, use of big data and artificial intelligence in tourism, digital transformation in tourism and recreation, virtual reality in tourism, blockchain technology in tourism management.

Environmental Sustainability, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation: Environmental impacts of tourism activities, sustainable tourism planning, nature conservation policies, natural resource management, carrying capacity studies, environmental impact assessments.

Leisure Behavior: Leisure activities, individual and societal leisure preferences, psychological and sociological dimensions of leisure use, leisure and quality of life, trends in leisure behavior.

Game and Dance: The role of game and dance activities in the context of recreation and tourism, dance and games as cultural heritage, contributions of game and dance to individual and social development, traditional games in tourism, animation.

Tourist Motivation and Behavior: Factors influencing travel decisions, motivation theories, tourist typologies, analysis of tourism experiences and tourist behaviors, decision-making processes in tourism.

Tourism and Leisure Education: Research in higher education in the fields of accommodation, leisure, sports, tourism, and events, studies aimed at encouraging, developing, and disseminating best practices and innovations, curriculum development, experiential learning, and professional training in tourism and leisure fields.

Outdoor Recreation and Park Management: Planning and management of outdoor recreation areas, park design and maintenance, visitor management in parks, sustainable park management, public-private partnerships in park management.

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