Impacts and Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality, and Events

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce an upcoming issue of Sustainability, our open access journal that may interest you or those in your network of colleagues. We hope you consider circulating this call for papers announcement that will focus on the topics of sustainable tourism and the interrelated fields of events, hospitality, recreation, and sport.

As the tourism industry is currently on hold due to COVID-19, the research community has an ideal opportunity to examine its socio-cultural, economic, and environmental consequences more thoroughly. Scholarly inquiry can embrace this lull in a way that contributes to a more responsible tourism future. Please join us at this important time by contributing new information and ideas to the literature in sustainable tourism, events, hospitality, recreation, and sports.

We aim to attract a range of potential interdisciplinary contributors to make this issue reflective of the totality of the tourism super sector. Welcome disciplinary perspectives include business, commercial recreation, culinary arts, destination marketing, economics, education, ecology, entrepreneurship, environmental sciences, gaming entertainment, hotels and resort administration, land use, sociology, psychology, parks and recreation, sports management, wildlife conservation, and urban and regional planning.

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; CODEN: SUSTDE) is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of the environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. For more about the scope and subject aims of Sustainability open access journal, please click here.

We hope you considering submitting a paper that will help inform the scholarly community and in turn the future of the tourism industry and the related sectors of events, hospitality, recreation, and sport.

Dr. Susan Ryan
Dr. Jacob Bethem
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.