Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR) is an international journal covering the study of tourism business research.  The main Areas relevant to the scope of the journal is tourism business studies focuses on topics about Tourist attractions and the Tourism Industry/business. The other scope of these areas includes tourism planning; halal tourism; geography tourism; management; travelling; environment, gastronomic tourism; heritage tourism, and culture tourism.

 

Section Policies

Articles 

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Publication Frequency

The International Journal of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR) is published in two periods a year, namely, in June and December

Open Access Statement

International Journal of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR), ISSN: 2985-5934, adheres to the principle that all research is for the benefit of mankind. Research is a product of investment by society, and therefore, the proceeds must be returned to everyone without boundaries or discrimination, serving society universally and transparently. That is why the International Journal of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR) provides free and open online access to all of its research publications. All articles that are declared accepted will be immediately available and free to download on the  https://jurnal.fe.unram.ac.id/index.php/intour/index  page without limits and without charge.

International Journal of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR) understands that in this world everyone has equal opportunities to seek, share and create knowledge - we look forward to the authors joining us in this open access concept.

 

Screening for Plagiarism

International Journal Of Tourism Business Research (INTOUR) applies Zero tolerance towards plagiarism and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in INTOUR.

Definition: Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy: Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

All submitted papers will be checked for their similarity by Turnitin.

When plagiarism is identified, the Principal Editor responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Similarity level

INTOUR practices Zero tolerance towards plagiarism. We use Turnitin to evaluate the similarity index and then the editor decides the case of possible plagiarism. 
1. Similarity Index above 40%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article  outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
2. Similarity Index (20-39%): Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do a good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
3. Similarity index equal to or Less than 20%:  Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).

Every manuscript submitted to INTOUR will be scanned using Turnitin (similarity check).