Call for papers

Inviting Submissions for the Inaugural Issue

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new academic journal, the Journal of Tourism & Arts (JTA). This interdisciplinary publication aims to explore the dynamic relationship between tourism and the arts in all their forms and contexts. The journal seeks to foster scholarly dialogue on how the arts influence tourism and, conversely, how tourism shapes artistic expression, heritage, and cultural landscapes. The journal will therefore provide a much-needed platform for the dissemination of original research on the interfaces between tourism and a wide diversity of art forms, ranging from the high arts to the popular arts in their multiple expressions, including visual and performing arts, digital art, photography, crafts, music, literature, cinema, street art, culinary arts and community arts.

Suitable topics therefore include (but are not limited to):

  • The relationships between art, identity, culture, image and branding of tourist destinations, visitor experiences and host communities.
  • Art as a vehicle for economic growth and/or creative innovation.
  • Art as a political instrument and as a target for protests in the context of tourism.
  • Tourism as a promoter of local artistic traditions in the context of globalisation and masstourism.
  • The artistic representation of tourism through the visual arts, theatre, music andliterature.
  • The challenges of authenticity and impacts on local cultures.
  • Art festivals/events and tourism.
  • Tourist art (souvenirs and other material objects).
  • Museums and galleries in the context of tourism.

The Journal of Tourism & Arts is always open to submissions and publishes scientific articles (resulting from empirical research and/or of a more theoretical nature), systematic and/or critical literature reviews, and research reports, all subject to a rigorous double-blind review process.

We aim initially to publish one issue per year, on a continuous flow basis. This means that articles will be published online as soon as they are ready.

The journal will be published by the University of Algarve, on an entirely open access basis and completely free of all charges, for both readers and authors.

All articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY NC SA 4.0), which allows the work to be shared, downloaded, reproduced on any platform, and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that it is duly cited.

We anticipate that, soon, we will be able to provide more information about journal indexing.

 

We hope you will consider supporting this exciting new project by submitting an article at your earliest convenience.

For more information, as well as author and submission guidelines, please visit our website: https://revistas.ualg.pt/jta or send an email to jta@ualg.pt

The Editors,

Rita Baleiro
Kate Torkington
Alexandra Gonçalves

(ESGHT – University of the Algarve, Portugal)