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Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts
If you have not yet registered on ScholarOne Manuscripts, please follow the instructions below:
- Please log on to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trcpt
- Click on "Create Account"
- Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding
- Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers
- Click "Finish" and your account will have been created.
Submitting an article to TRC on ScholarOne Manuscripts
- Please log on to TRC at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trcpt with your username and password. This will take you through to the welcome page (to consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the homepage link in the "Resources" column)
- Click on the "Author Centre" button
- Click on the "Submit a manuscript" link which will take you through to the manuscript submission page
- Complete all fields and browse to "Upload your article"
- When all required sections are completed, preview your PDF proof
- Submit your manuscript.
Authors submitting papers for publication should specify which section of the journal they wish their paper to be considered for: "Research Papers" or "Viewpoints", etc. The editors and publisher will do everything possible to ensure that the manuscripts are dealt with promptly and that those which are accepted are quickly published.
Review process
Each paper submitted is reviewed by at least two external reviewers and the editors to assess its suitability to the journal. All manuscripts which format does not follow the guidelines indicated below will be rejected without further consideration.
To upload the revised version of the manuscript, authors need to go into "Review and Submit" section of their draft and submit.
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Upon acceptance of an article authors will be requested to sign a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Publishing under a CC BY 4.0 license means:
- Copyright in the article is retained by the author.
- The author grants Emerald a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Your article can be shared freely, including copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format.
- Your article can be adapted, remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- Full attribution to the original work must be included in any derivatives, indicating if/where changes have been made.
Authors will be asked to complete the CC BY 4.0 licence through ScholarOne. All authors are sent an e-mail with links to the licence form, which they must check for accuracy and submit electronically.
Author fees
The journal is published under a Platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by The College of Tourism, Beijing Union University. This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.
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Final submission
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Archiving policy
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Manuscript requirements
The journal's policy is open access and creative commons. Authors retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by them, subject to full acknowledgement of the original source of publication.
Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines:
Format |
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format. |
Article length |
Articles should be a maximum of 12,000 words in length. This includes all text but excluding references and appendices. Please allow 280 words for each figure or table. |
Article title |
A title of not more than eight words should be provided. |
Author details |
All contributing authors’ names should be added to the ScholarOne submission, and their names arranged in the correct order for publication.
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Biographies and acknowledgements | Authors who wish to include these items should save them together in an MS Word file to be uploaded with the submission. If they are to be included, a brief professional biography of not more than 100 words should be supplied for each named author. |
Abstract |
Authors must supply an abstract in their submission. Maximum is 250 words in total (including keywords and article classification, see below). |
Keywords |
Authors should provide appropriate and short keywords in the ScholarOne submission that encapsulate the principal topics of the paper (see the How to... ensure your article is highly downloaded guide for practical help and guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords). The maximum number of keywords is 12. |
Article classification |
Authors must categorize their paper as part of the ScholarOne submission process. The category which most closely describes their paper should be selected from the list below. |
Headings | Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings. The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics |
Notes/endnotes |
Notes or endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the article. |
Figures |
All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form.
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Tables |
Tables should be typed and included in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the body text of article with corresponding labels being clearly shown in the separate file. |
Supplementary files |
Where tables, figures, appendices, and other additional content are supplementary to the article but not critical to the reader’s understanding of it, you can choose to host these supplementary files alongside your article on Insight, Emerald’s content hosting platform, or on an institutional or personal repository. All supplementary material must be submitted prior to acceptance. If you choose to host your supplementary files on Insight, you must submit these as separate files alongside your article. Files should be clearly labelled in such a way that makes it clear they are supplementary; Emerald recommends that the file name is descriptive and that it follows the format ‘Supplementary_material_appendix_1’ or ‘Supplementary tables’. All supplementary material must be mentioned at the appropriate moment in the main text of the article, there is no need to include the content of the file but only the file name. A link to the supplementary material will be added to the article during production, and the material will be made available alongside the main text of the article at the point of EarlyCite publication. Please note that Emerald will not make any changes to the material; it will not be copyedited, typeset, and authors will not receive proofs. Emerald therefore strongly recommends that you style all supplementary material ahead of acceptance of the article. Emerald Insight can host the following file types and extensions:
If you choose to use an institutional or personal repository, you should ensure that the supplementary material is hosted on the repository ahead of submission, and then include a link only to the repository within the article. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ensure that the material is free to access and that it remains permanently available. Please note that extensive supplementary material may be subject to peer review; this is at the discretion of the journal Editor and dependent on the content of the material (for example, whether including it would support the reviewer making a decision on the article during the peer review process). |
References |
References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. This is very important in an electronic environment because it enables your readers to exploit the Reference Linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef. |
For books |
Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication. |
For book chapters |
Surname, Initials (year), "Chapter title", Editor's Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. |
For journals |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", Journal Name, volume issue, pages. |
For published |
Surname, Initials (year of publication), "Title of paper", in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers. |
For unpublished |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of paper", paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date). |
For working papers |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date. |
For encyclopedia entries (with no author or editor) |
Title of Encyclopedia (year) "Title of entry", volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. |
For newspaper |
Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper, date, pages. |
For newspaper |
Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages. |
For archival or other unpublished sources |
Surname, Initials, (year), "Title of document", Unpublished Manuscript, collection name, inventory record, name of archive, location of archive. |
For electronic sources |
If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed. |
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Editor-in-Chief
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Professor
Chris
Ryan
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University of Waikato - New Zealand
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Professor
Chris
Ryan
(Director)
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Associate Editor
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Dr
Xiaoyu Nancy
Zhang
Nancy is expert in China’s classical literature and cultural and heritage tourism. She heads the Film Tourism Research Unit, College of Tourism, Beijing Union University. She is an Associate of the BUU China-New Zealand Tourism Research Unit.
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Dr
Xiaoyu Nancy
Zhang
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Journal Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)
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Purnima
Joshi
Emerald Publishing
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Purnima
Joshi
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Supplier Project Manager (For queries related to post-acceptance)
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Uday
Bhan
Emerald Publishing
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Uday
Bhan
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Editorial Board
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Professor
Jigang
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Sun Ya-sen University - People's Republic of China
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Sue
Beeton
Sue is a travel researcher and writer as well as holding various honorary posts including Foundation Chair of the College Eminent Professor at William Angliss Institute in Melbourne and as an Associate (and past Head of School) at LaTrobe University.
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Prior to entering academia Donna spent five years in the Jamaican Tourism Ministry. She now heads the Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism Research Institute at the University of Sunderland.
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Chin
Ee-Ong
Chin Ee was previously at the National University of Singapore but in 2019 joined the School of Tourism at Sun Yat-Sen University.
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Michael is a Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury and a Docent in Geography at the University of Oulu.
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Lattimore
Catheryn is editor of Tourism Management Perspectives and has specific research interests in Asian youth and tourist experiences, and additionally in gender issues.
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Timothy is Associate Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and has held the post of Vice-President of the Tourism Sciences Society of Korea and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Sciences.
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Ping is Associate Professor at Yuexiu School of Hospitality Management, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Zheijiang, China, and a Director of Tourism Think Tank International.
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Luo Qiuju
Betty is Deputy Dean of the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-Sen University and specialises in the area of exhibition, convention, mega events, event tourism, social media, and crisis management.
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Alastair M.
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Greenwich Business School, University of Greenwich - UK
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Phil is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University. He was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor of the University in 2016, the first social scientist to achieve this accolade at James Cook University.
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Dr. Fangfang Shi is Assistant Dean of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and Surrey International Institute (a joint institute with the University of Surrey) at the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.
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Formerly at the University of Tasmania Trevor retains a position in Australia but also holds an adjunct position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Marla Royne
Stafford
Marla is the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the William F. Harrah Distinguished Chair in the Harrah College of Hospitality at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
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Ming Ming
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Ming Ming Su is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing. She holds degrees from the University of Waterloo in Canada and Tsinghua University in China.
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Ipkin Anthony
Wong
Anthony is a statistician who transferred in 2018 to join Sun Yat-Sen University, and he also holds a visiting position at Beijing Union University. Much of his past work was related to the gaming behaviour of Chinese visitors.
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Honggan
Xu
Honggang is current Dean of the College of Tourism at Sun Yat-Sen University and in 2016 won the Roy Wolfe Award from the American Association of Geographers - Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group (AAG-RTS).
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Bowei
Zeng
Bowei is the Director of China Tourism Economics and Policy Research Centre of Beijing Union University.
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Chaozhi
Zhang
Chaozhi is professor of tourism at the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-Sen University. He professor of UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Tourism in UNESCO Designated Sites.
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Professor
Jigang
Bao
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Senior Consulting Editor
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Dr.
Li
Xuewei
Xuewei is President of Beijing Union University, and a theoretical mathematician with specific research interests in computer networks transportation, big data theory and key technologies, and management sciences.
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Dr.
Li
Xuewei
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Consulting Editor
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Dr.
Yan
Xuyang
Xuyang is Dean of the College of Tourism, Beijing Union University and is an econometrician degrees in maths and economics and his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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Dr.
Yan
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Publishing Services Manager
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Eva
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Emerald Publishing
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Eva
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Tourism Critiques: Practice and Theory (TRC) publishes peer-reviewed research and commentary open access in fields related to the development of theory, practice and policy making that relates to tourism. The journal is owned by College of Tourism, Beijing Union University, and delivered by Emerald Publishing Services.
eISSN: 2633-1233

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Aims and scope
Tourism Critiques: Practice and Theory (TRC) seeks articles that review and critique current understanding of tourism and its social, economic, cultural, environmental and political impacts as demonstrated through business practices and policy-making by organisations. It is international in coverage, and is compliant with Plan S, that is, it is open access and authors are not required to pay authorship fees. It has an internationally recognised editorial board.
All articles are published open access, so are made freely available at no charge to the author.
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All articles published in Tourism Critiques are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
Tourism Critiques is published by Emerald Group Publishing on behalf of the College of Tourism, Beijing Union University, who owns the title. Tourism Critiques is published under a platinum OA arrangement, in that all charges for publishing an OA article in the Journal are funded by the College of Tourism, Beijing Union University. Therefore, there is no charge to the author.
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- Journal Ownership: Tourism Critiques is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of the Beijing Union.
- Governing Body: The editorial team is appointed and managed by the Beijing Union. The journal is governed by the editorial team in collaboration with Emerald Publishing.
- Peer Review Process: The journal operates a double blind peer review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for consideration, articles will then be a reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
- Editorial team/contact information: Contact details for the editorial team can be found on the journal homepage. Queries may also be directed to Emerald’s Publishing team as follows: Eva Chen – [email protected]
- Copyright: All articles in the journal are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-4.0). This allows authors to retain copyright of their work whilst others can share, use and build upon this work created as long as appropriate attribution is given.
- Author Fees: The journal is published under a Platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Beijing Union. There are currently no Article Processing Charges to the author(s).
- Allegations of Misconduct: All journals published by Emerald are members of and subscribe to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. In the event of any allegation of research or publication misconduct the publisher and editor will adhere to COPE guidelines in dealing with such allegations.
- Conflicts of interest: Authors are asked to declare any financial or ethical conflicts of interest upon submitting their work to the journal. Difficult cases will be referred to the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) for advice.
- Frequency: The journal currently publishes 2 issues per annum
- Access: All journal articles are published Open Access on EmeraldInsight.com - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/trcpt under a CCBY 4.0 licence (please see section 5).
- Revenue sources: The journal is published under a platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Beijing Union.
- Advertising: The journal does not accept direct advertising
- Archiving: Emerald provides perpetual access for all e-journal content by working with digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.
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This statement was updated by Eva Chen (Emerald Publishing) on 16th Feb 2020.