Publication Ethics

Compliance with the requirements of publication ethics in the preparation and publication of the scientific and practical journal ”Tourism and Hospitality“ applies to authors, editors and reviewers. The journal’s publication ethics is based on guidelines prepared by foreign specialized organizations, associations and publishers, as well as the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP). The main regulatory documents are the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommendations and the Declaration on the Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications (ANRI).

Ethical Standards of the Editorial Board

The editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board of the scientific and practical journal “Tourism and Hospitality” are responsible for deciding on the publication of the manuscript on the basis of its reliability and scientific significance. At the same time, they are guided by the Editorial Policy of the journal, taking into account current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright, legality and plagiarism. When deciding on publication, the editorial board members take into account the results of the review.

When evaluating the intellectual content of manuscripts, any form of discriminatory approach is unacceptable and inadmissible.

Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for consideration are not used in personal research without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas received during the review and related to possible benefits are kept confidential and are not used for personal gain.

In case of conflicts of interest of various parties related to the manuscript, the journal editor is obliged to refuse to consider manuscripts. In this situation, there is a cooperation with other members of the editorial board for joint decision-making.

The editor, who provided convincing evidence that the statements or conclusions presented in the publication are erroneous or may cause moral damage to a third party, reports this at a meeting of the editorial board in order to notify as soon as possible of changes, withdrawal of the publication or other relevant actions.

In the event of ethical claims regarding the reviewed manuscripts or published materials in the scientific and practical journal “Tourism and Hospitality”, the editorial board takes the appropriate response in accordance with the Guidelines for Retracting Articles of the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). Such measures include interaction with the manuscript authors and argumentation of the corresponding complaint or claim, as well as interaction with relevant organizations and research centers in the framework of cooperation on the accuracy of research (COPE program and recommendations).

Ethical Behavior of Reviewers

The reviewer who accepted the manuscript for review is required to comply with the agreed review period.

If the reviewer understands that he does not have sufficient qualifications to review the manuscript or does not have enough time to complete the work on time, he should send a notification (via e-mail to the editorial board) and ask to be excluded from the review process of the corresponding manuscript.

The reviewer should not participate in the review of the manuscript in case of conflicts of interest due to competitive, joint and other interactions and relations with any of the authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work.

The reviewer does not have the right to use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal research without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas received during the review and related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and cannot be used for personal gain.

Any manuscript received for review is considered as a confidential document. This work is not opened and is not discussed with any person who does not have authority from the Editor-in-Chief.

The reviewer is required to give an objective assessment. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable. The reviewers should clearly and reasonably express their opinions.

The reviewers identify significant published works that are relevant to the topic and not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement, observation, conclusion or argument published previously must be accompanied by a bibliographic reference in the manuscript. The reviewer draws attention of the Editor-in-Chief (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) to the discovery of significant similarities or coincidences between the considered manuscript and any other previously published work that is within the scope of the reviewer's scientific competence and expresses its opinion on the acceptability of the manuscript for publication in terms of ethical standards and rules.

Ethical Behavior of Authors

The authors should provide reliable results of the work done on the original study and an objective discussion of its significance. The data underlying the work should be presented accurately. The work should contain enough details and bibliographic references for possible reproduction. False or knowingly erroneous statements are perceived as unethical behavior and unacceptable. This may serve as a reason for rejection of the manuscript or refutation of the published article.

Reviews articles must also be accurate and objective.

The author should not publish a manuscript dedicated to the same study in more than one journal as an original publication. Submission of the same manuscript at the same time in more than one journal is perceived as unethical behavior and unacceptable. The author should not submit to the journal a previously published article.

The authors guarantee that they submitted a completely original work. In the case of using the articles or statements of other Authors, appropriate bibliographic references or abstracts should be provided. The authors may be requested for additional data related to the manuscript. The authors should be prepared to provide open access to this kind of information (according to the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if feasible, and in any case they should be prepared to save this data for the necessary period of time after publication.

Plagiarism in any form – from representing someone else’s work as copyright to copying or paraphrasing significant parts of someone else’s work (without attribution)  or to declaring one’s own rights to the results of someone else’s research – is unethical and unacceptable.

The editors of the scientific and practical journal “Tourism and Hospitality” reserve the right not to respond to allegations of plagiarism if the prosecutor provides false personal information (for example, a fictitious name is given) or acts in an unethical or threatening manner. The editors are not obliged to discuss cases of alleged plagiarism with persons who are not directly related to it.

The authors confirm that their publication does not violate any of the existing copyrights and guarantee the Publisher compensation for losses when such violations are found out.

In accordance with the international ethics of scientific publications, the editors of the scientific and practical journal “Tourism and Hospitality” recommend that the authors should observe a self-citation's degree of no more than 10% (in the list of references).

The authors should cite publications relevant to the performance of the work presented. Data obtained privately (conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties) should not be used or presented without the explicit written permission of the source. Information from confidential sources should not be used without the express written permission of the Authors of work related to such sources. The authors of publications can only be persons who have made a significant contribution to the formation of the design of the work, the development, execution or interpretation of the presented research. All those who have made significant contributions should be identified as Co-Authors. In those cases where the study participants made a significant contribution in a certain direction in the research project, they should be indicated as persons who made a significant contribution to this study.

The author guarantees that all participants who have made a significant contribution to the study are represented as co-authors and those who have not participated in the study are not listed as co-authors. The author also guarantees that all co-authors saw and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it for publication. Persons who have made an insignificant contribution to the study are mentioned in the Acknowledgments section.

The authors are required to disclose in their manuscripts financial or other existing conflicts of interest that may be perceived as having an impact on the results or conclusions presented in the work. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed in advance. The authors must list all sources of funding for research.

If the author finds significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication, he must immediately notify the editorial staff of the journal and take appropriate measures to correct errors or remove (retract) the publication. If the editors received information from a third party that the publication contains significant errors, the author is obliged to withdraw (retract) the work or correct the errors as soon as possible.

In cases of plagiarism, multiple publication of an article in other publications, falsifications or fabrications, and other violations by the authors of publication ethics, the editors reserve the right to take the following actions: