Editorial policy
1 Goal and tasks
1.1. The main goal of the scientific and practical journal ”Tourism and Hospitality“ is to provide opportunities for conducting scientific and practical discussions on various theoretical and practical issues in tourism and hospitality, and, thus, to find more effective solutions in this area based on interdisciplinary research and argumentation. The scientific concept of the journal provides for the publication of modern achievements, which reflect the results of research, scientific, practical and innovative activities of scientists of the Republic of Belarus and other countries, as well as the leading specialists of enterprises and organizations.
1.2. Achieving the goal is carried out through the implementation of the following tasks:
- to provide an opportunity for scientists to publish the results of their research in an atmosphere of transparency and openness on scientific perspective;
- to promote an open scientific debate in order to improve the quality of scientific research and the effectiveness of the examination of the research, to identify the scientific capacity for the introduction of innovations;
- to draw attention to the most relevant and interesting scientific issues in tourism and hospitality;
- to ensure interaction and attract the leading Belarusian and foreign scientists to publish their articles in the journal, to establish an exchange of views between researchers of different scientific schools and different countries;
- to provide an opportunity for dialogue and an exchange of knowledge between leading scientists and specialists.
2 Key Points
2.1. The topics of the journal cover the following areas of research (sections of the journal):
Economics, management and marketing, law in tourism and hospitality;
Modern technologies and innovations in tourism and hospitality;
Historical and cultural aspects of tourism and hospitality;
Natural science aspects of tourism activities (geography, biology, ecology, health conservation);
Tourism in regions.
2.2. Original scientific and review articles corresponding to the journal topics are accepted for publication.
2.2.1. Science articles
The introduction should contain the relevance and feasibility of developing a topic (scientific problem or task). In the main part of the article, by analyzing and synthesizing information, it is necessary to disclose the problems studied, ways to solve them, justification of possible results, and their reliability. In the final part it is necessary to summarize, formulate conclusions, recommendations, indicate possible directions for further research.
2.2.2. Review articles
The review should analyze, compare and identify the most important and promising areas for the development of science (practice), its individual types of activities, phenomena, events, etc. The material should be problematic, demonstrate conflicting views on the development of scientific (practical) knowledge, contain conclusions, generalizations, and summary data.
2.3. The editorial policy of the journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of scientific periodicals, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors, reviewers and authors.
2.4. The editorial policy of the journal includes 3 components:
Terms of articles publication.
2.5. The relationships of all parties (editors, authors, reviewers) are based on compliance with the Publication Ethics of the Publishing House.
2.6. Reception, verification and preliminary consideration of manuscripts submitted by the authors for publication in the journal “Tourism and Hospitality” is carried out by the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal.
2.7. The deputy editor-in-chief of the journal checks the submitted materials for compliance with the Terms of articles publication which are obligatory for the authors.
2.8. Manuscripts that do not meet the requirements of Terms of articles publication, are rejected. The author is notified of the need to bring the materials (manuscripts and / or accompanying documents) in accordance with the requirements of the journal (Terms of articles publication).
2.9. In order to ensure the quality of published materials and to observe copyright, all received manuscripts prepared in accordance with the journal publication terms go through automated systems for checking manuscripts for borrowing (Antiplagiat and others) and only after that they are sent for reviewing.
2.10. Manuscripts are reviewed in accordance with the Article review process.
2.11. The final decision on accepting an article for publication is made by the editorial board based on the reviewers recommendations, the scientific value of the paper and its relevance to the journal topics.
2.12. Editing of all accepted manuscripts is carried out in accordance with the requirements for the publication of scientific literature.
2.13. Authors sending their manuscripts for publication in the journal thereby express their consent to the publication of manuscripts in scientific journals of the Publishing House, to the publication of their articles (published manuscripts) in the public domain on the journal's website, to the transmission of the text of the article (including references, bibliographic information etc.) to persons and organizations for whom the provision of this information is mandatory, or to other persons in order to ensure the possibility of citing the publications and to increase the citation index of the authors and the journal.
2.14. The authors are responsible for the facts and data cited in the articles.
2.15. Manuscripts that receive a negative rating based on review results and rejected by the editorial board are not published. The editorial board does not save rejected manuscripts.
2.16. Editorial staff in the process of technical editing of the text and layout is entitled to make reductions and editorial changes to the manuscript.
2.17. The journal offers access to content in an open access system on the basis of a license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC).
