The ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism is published by Tourism Research and Development Centre, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. The main purpose of this international refereed journal is to advance and foster tourism and hospitality education, research, and professionalism in the Southeast Asia region. The journal provides a vehicle for increasing awareness, consideration and analysis of issues in tourism and hospitality, and also promotes the interchange of ideas, and comparative studies, both within the countries of the region and between these countries and other parts of the world.
The release of the journal is primarily directed toward the creation of a firm tourism-related knowledge development and professional institution that is needed to develop a reliable tourism industry in ASEAN countries by facilitating and strengthening network among ASEAN countries professionals and scholars.The aim will be achieved by:
1) Stimulating ASEAN tourism scholars/professionals contribution in developing ASEAN tourism-related information to balance and counter other information usually prepared/composed by western scholars, and in return, increase their self-esteem
2) Stimulating a ‘sense of belonging’ of ASEAN tourism scholars and professionals on the regional tourism problems and undertakings
Readerships
The journal aims primarily at a wide range of persons who are concerned with the tourism and tourism-related issues in the countries of Southeast Asia region, for example:
1) Those who are involved in planning, policy making and consultancy positions
2) Those who are involved in tourism and tourism-related activities, at the executive and senior management levels
3) Those who are involved in teaching and research on tourism and tourism-related issues.
Content of the Journal
The editorial board will invite and encourages articles from all over the world with relevance to the Southeast Asia region from both academic and practitioner authors for publication.
Two categories of articles in the journal are :
1) Full-length empirically and theoretically based articles
* Innovative researches in the field of tourism and hospitality
* Empirical papers on tourism & hospitality issues
* Incubator papers involving new ideas and perspectives
* Commentaries of recently published materials on theories, concepts, and methodologies
* Cutting-edge papers drawn from academic thesis
* Country statistical and analyses and critical reviews
2) Short research notes/reports reviews
* notes/reports of student project/thesis
* conference news/reports/reviews
* book review
* bookshelves
* Authors submitting articles for the journal should specify which categories they wish their articles to be considered for : “Academic Papers” or “Practitioner Papers”. Articles submitted under the “Academic Papers” categories will be subjected to an anonymous double-blind refereeing process while articles submitted under the “Practitioner Papers” categories will be reviewed by at least one Editorial Board
Regularity of the Journal
Taking into account the undeveloped atmosphere and culture of sharing knowledge, information and experience among tourism professionals and scholars in ASEAN countries, the journal was decided to be published as a semi-annually journal.
Themes Covered
Several possible themes to be addressed in the following issues are :
* Reinforcing Southeast Asia Tourism
* Tourism Best Practices in Southeast Asia
* Global Economics of ASEAN Tourism/Global Economy in ASEAN Tourism
* Tourism Education in Southeast Asia
* The Politics of Tourism in Southeast Asia, etc
* Other- related topics
