Only original works not previously published or under review in another journal are accepted. Until authors receive a rejection notice or voluntarily withdraw their submission, they shall not submit their originals to other outlets for assessment or publication. Articles that expand upon or amend previously published works, such as brief notes, communications or summaries as part of conference proceedings, presented at seminars or workshops or published in preliminary versions as working documents, may be submitted for publication. In these cases, it is necessary that the original submitted to this publication adequately cites the text or work on which it is based and that said original incorporates substantive modifications to what has already been published.

Submissions received will be submitted for acceptance to anonymous external assessment. The editorial team may reject an article without further assessment if it considers that it does not meet the formal and content standards or does not fit the thematic profile of the publication.

Submissions shall be sent by email to estudiosturisticos@tourspain.es or directly to the secretary, Amalia Jiménez Morales, at amalia.jimenez@tourspain.es.

Contributions shall be submitted in Microsoft Word format (doc, docx or rtf). Graphical representations (charts, graphs, diagrams, figures, etc.) shall be included in a separate Excel file and must be titled, numbered and referenced in the text. The information sources and, where applicable, explanatory notes shall be included underneath.

Illustrations (charts, tables, images and graphs) shall each be sent as a single file, in tif or tiff, jpg or jpge format, with a resolution of 300 dpi. Each of them shall feature the corresponding title. They shall be documented with their source. If these elements have been manipulated by the author, this shall be indicated after the source: Compiled by the authors.
Illustrations, tables and charts:
— They should be placed as close as possible to the text they accompany.
— They must be titled.

These shall be numbered with the indication “Figure”, “Table” or “Chart”, with the corresponding figure, table or chart number indicated in the text. Unless explicitly stated, references such as “see attached table”, “see table below”, etc. shall be avoided. References within the text shall be made to the number and, if necessary, to the title of the illustration, table or chart.

Under the image, whether it is a figure, table or chart, the Source from which the image was obtained or the reproduction permission must be included. It will be named as the institution indicates in its authorisation for use.

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate permission to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for properly citing their source. These permissions must be requested from both the author and the publisher that published the material.

It is recommended that articles published use inclusive language that promotes gender equality in science, as indicated by the European Research Area agenda (ERA: 2022-2024, action number 5: “Promote gender equality and foster inclusiveness”).

The length of the work, including charts, graphs, tables, notes and bibliographic references, shall not exceed the number of words indicated for each type of works described below, including references or bibliographies, charts, tables, captions and footnotes. The font used shall be Times New Roman 12, with 3 cm margins, double spacing and page number at the bottom right. The authors will indicate to which section their work corresponds: article, conceptual paper or essay, case study, general review or book review.

Articles
Length: Between 5,000 and 10,000 words (including tables, figures, footnotes and references or bibliography).
Content: They show the results of research that specifically contribute to the theoretical and methodological advancement of tourism in its political, economic and social aspects.
A social science perspective based on qualitative, quantitative, conceptual or economic models will be used.
Articles shall typically follow this traditional structure:
Introduction and theoretical framework or literature review
Methodology
Results
Discussion
References or Bibliography

Conceptual paper
Length: Between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including tables, figures, footnotes and references or bibliography).
Content: Presentation of a theoretical idea or hypothesis in a clear and systematic manner in order to explore new fields of research, provide a comparison of existing literature on a topic or present new perspectives on a given topic, always related to tourism.

Case studies
Length: Between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including tables, figures, footnotes and references or bibliography).
Content: description of actual or hypothetical interventions or experiences. These are not research reports.
The development of business initiatives or the implementation of a product may be included.

General revision
Length: Between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including tables, figures, footnotes and references or bibliography).
Content: They provide a general or historical overview of a concept, technique or phenomenon. These articles should be more descriptive (how to) than discursive.

Reviews
Extension: Between 2,000 and 3,000 words (including tables, figures, footnotes and references or bibliography).
Content: Reviews of books of interest to tourism knowledge and research.

Language: Articles in English are accepted as long as they have been reviewed. A review certificate shall be provided on the author's behalf.

Each original must include, on a separate first page, the title of the article, which shall be brief, clear, precise and informative, the date on which the article was completed, the full name of the authors, their institutional affiliation, address, telephone number and email address.

The first page of the text will include:
The title in Spanish and English.
A summary of the work, in Spanish and English, not exceeding 200 words.
A list of 2 to 6 keywords in Spanish and English

If there are any additional materials, these shall be inserted after the bibliographic references and must have a title.

The headings of the various sections and subsections shall be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the following model:
1. Section title (first level)
1.1 Subsection title (second level)
1.1.1 Subsection section (third level)

Footnotes shall be integrated into the text and their content shall be placed at the bottom of the corresponding pages in size 10, Times New Roman.

Acronyms must be accompanied, on the first occasion they are cited, by their full meaning.

The citation format shall follow the criteria set out in the latest version of the American Psychological Association Guidelines (APA Guidelines), which can be consulted at the following link: (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples).

As an example: “(Fernández Fúster, 1991)”, “Fernández Fúster (1991)”, “(Fernández Fúster, 1991, p. 87)” or “Fernández Fúster (1974, 1991)”.
Multiple references should be included in parentheses in chronological order: “(Rodríguez Lázaro, 2004, 94-121; Roca, 2017; Vilar and Vallejo, 2018)”.

References published in the same year will be distinguished with lowercase letters: “(Vega-Inclán, 1913a, p. 22)”, “(Vega-Inclán, 1913b)”.

Bibliographic references: these shall be listed at the end of the text and follow the APA Standards. The general rules and examples of the most common references can be found in the link in point 16. It is worth noting that these standards suggest that whenever the article has a DOI, it must be included in the reference.

Format and examples of the most frequent references:

Book

Last name, A. A. (Year). Title. Publisher or URL
Larrinaga Rodríguez, C. (2021). From the inn to the hotel: tourism and the private hotel industry in Spain between 1900 and 1959. Editorial Comares

Book chapter

Last name, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In C. C. Apellido (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx-xx). Editorial. URL (for digital editions)
Escudero Gómez, L. A. & Martínez Fernández, P. (2020). Host communities facing overtourism: A comparative study between San Martín de los Andes (Argentina) and Toledo (Spain). In G. Pons, A. Blanco-Romero, R. Navalón-García, L. Troitiño-Torralba and M. Blázquez-Salom (Eds.), Sustainable Tourism: Overtourism vs undertourism (pp. 307-317). Natural History Society of the Balearics. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7601585

Periodical publications

Last name, A. A. (Year). Title of the article. Journal name, volume (number), pp-pp. URL (for digital editions)

Mata Olmo, R. (2008). Landscape, heritage and resources for sustainable territorial development. Knowledge and public action. Arbor, 184 (729), 155-172. https: //doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2008.i729.168

Online journal article

Last name, N. N. (full date). Article title. Name of the journal. URL
Giuffrida, A. (August 12, 2022). Venice drops to less than 50,000 inhabitants as it once again becomes “suffocated” by tourism. eldiario.es https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/theguardian/venecia-queda-50-000-habitantes-vuelve-sofocada-turismo_1_9239423.html

Official report online

Organisation. (Year). Title of the report. URL
International Monetary Fund. (2019). Global Financial Stability Report. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2019/10/01/global-financial-stability-report-october-2019

Law/Regulation

Title of the law. Publication, number, publication date, pp. xx-xx. URL
Law 16/1985, of June 25, on Spanish Historical Heritage. Official State Gazette, No. 155, 29 June 1985, pp. 20342-20352. https://www.boe.es/eli/es/l/1985/06/25/16

Order of the list of bibliographic references

References are arranged alphabetically and, in the case of several works by the same author, the criteria are as follows:
First, the works in which the author appears by themselves. Correlative from the oldest year to the most recent year of publication.
Second, collective works in which the author is the first author. Consecutive by date.
Third, in the case of an exact match between authors and dates, each work must be cited by adding a letter to the date. Example: 2014a, 2014b, etc.