Purpose and Scope

Tourism and Recreation is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to contribute to the scientific community by publishing academic and scientific studies in an ethical, high-quality, and original manner. Articles are published after being evaluated by at least two referees. Both Turkish and English publications are accepted. Authors submitting articles must have never published their work elsewhere. Articles are subject to a plagiarism check and are then published.

Tourism and Recreation publishes articles related to tourism science, including tourism management, recreation, tourism marketing, tourist guiding, travel management, transportation services, recreation management, gastronomy and culinary arts, culture and tourism, tourism geography, tourism promotion, and tourism public relations. The journal is published electronically twice a year, in June and December. The journal is free of charge, and there are no article submission or publication fees.

Publication Frequency

Tourism and Recreation is a peer-reviewed journal published electronically. It publishes two issues per year (June-December) every six months.

Publication Language

Tourism and Recreation publishes in both Turkish and English. Publications include a summary, keywords, and title in both English and Turkish.

Peer Review

Tourism and Recreation operates a double-blind peer review process. All manuscripts submitted to Tourism and Recreation are evaluated using the following steps.

Double-blind review

Tourism and Recreation uses a double-blind review method for all manuscript evaluations. The identities of authors and reviewers are concealed in this double-blind review process. All manuscripts submitted to Tourism and Recreation are reviewed in a blinded manner according to the following steps.

Initial Evaluation Process

Articles submitted to Tourism and Recreation are initially evaluated by the editors. At this stage, manuscripts that do not meet the journal's objectives and scope, contain weak grammar and narrative, contain critical scientific errors, lack originality, or do not meet publication policies are rejected. Appropriate articles are then sent to two (2) reviewers for evaluation.

Peer Review Process

Articles are referred to reviewers based on their content and the reviewers' areas of expertise. Reviewers must guarantee that they will not share any processes or documents related to the studies they review. The reviewer period is 15 days. Authors are required to complete correction suggestions from reviewers or editors within 15 days, based on a "correction report." Reviewers can review a study's corrections and determine its appropriateness, or they may request multiple corrections if necessary.

Tourism and Recreation journal reviewers respect the author's interdisciplinary tendencies, attempts at new methods, and efforts to foster discussion on current issues. They aim to broaden the author's perspective rather than solely viewing the study from their perspective. They do not merely highlight the study's negative aspects; they also highlight its strengths. They clearly state their expectations of the author by providing concrete suggestions. They do not forget their responsibility to verify the appropriateness of the study methodology. They inform the editor if they feel they are statistically inadequate.

Reviewer Reports

All submissions are evaluated based on several factors, including originality, adequacy of methodology, analysis and interpretation, ethical issues, contribution to the literature, and quality of communication.

Copy Editing Process

Tourism and Recreation requires articles to have a uniform and complete page layout and print format, as required by the journal's standards for formal integrity, readability, and overall format. Articles accepted for publication are adapted to the journal's format by the layout editor.

Plagiarism Policy

Each article submitted to the journal for publication is checked for plagiarism by the author(s) before being evaluated. Using iThenticate, we identify overlapping examples with other articles. Articles must have a plagiarism rate below 20% (without references), and citations must not exceed 1% of each publication.

Publication Ethics

The editors of Tourism and Recreation journal undertake to adopt an approach that defends freedom of expression, thoroughly operates the relevant processes to ensure the quality of published articles, does not compromise academic ethical standards, takes into account the opinions of authors, readers, referees and editorial board members, and adopts other recommendations made by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Open Access and License

Tourism and Recreation provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All papers published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The author(s) and copyright holder(s) agree that all users have free access to the articles published in this Journal. To protect copyright and the rights of the Journal, authors of the accepted articles agree to share their manuscripts with others with full acknowledgement of the manuscript.