Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice: Scopus, Scope, Metrics & Publishing Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice?

Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed Emerald book series focused on connecting tourism scholarship with real-world tourism practice. It publishes themed edited volumes whose chapters address contemporary tourism problems, concepts, destinations, governance, experiences, development, sustainability, knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship and related hospitality/tourism questions.

The series is identifiable through print ISSN 2042-1443, online ISSN 2042-1451 and Scopus Source ID 21100264815. The supplied task record links directly to its Scopus source profile. The ISSN Portal independently confirms both the print and online serial records, and Emerald’s own book pages repeatedly identify the series and its ISSN.

Researchers considering it should verify the current edited-volume opportunity rather than assuming there is a standing journal submission portal. They should also confirm current Scopus coverage and institutional eligibility directly in Scopus, because database status and metrics can change. A 2024 Scopus metric snapshot reported by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Journal Publishing Guide lists a CiteScore of 0.8, Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) and Q4 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management; current values should be reconfirmed before they are used in a formal publication decision.

Key Takeaways

• Source type: Emerald book series / serial, not a standard journal.
• Identifiers: print ISSN 2042-1443; online ISSN 2042-1451; Scopus Source ID 21100264815.
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom.
• Core focus: meaningful exchange between tourism theory and tourism practice through themed volumes.
• Verified recent volume: Volume 14, Managing Destinations: From Theories to Practices, published in 2024.
• 2024 metric snapshot: CiteScore 0.8, with category quartiles reported as Q3 and Q4 by an institutional journal guide using Scopus metrics; verify the latest Scopus display before relying on it.
• Submission model: chapter or book/volume opportunities rather than a universal journal-article portal; requirements can vary by volume.
• No guarantee: editing, formatting or publication support can improve readiness, but cannot guarantee acceptance, indexing or publication.

Journal Information at a Glance

Metric note: bibliometric indicators are time-sensitive. The 2024 CiteScore/quartile values above are included because they are traceable to an institutional publishing guide that explicitly labels them as Scopus Journal Metrics (2024). The latest Scopus source page should be treated as the final check for current coverage and metrics.

What This Page Covers

• what the series is and why its book-series status changes the submission process;
• the verified aims, scope and tourism subject areas represented across volumes;
• Scopus identifiers, indexing evidence and carefully dated metrics;
• the kinds of chapters and research approaches that may fit a themed volume;
• how Emerald’s book proposal and peer-review process works at publisher level;
• open-access routes, chapter processing charges and self-archiving options;
• publication ethics, permissions, authorship and generative-AI expectations;
• a practical fit and manuscript-readiness checklist for prospective contributors.

Methodology and Sources

This profile was prepared by cross-checking the supplied source record with authoritative and institutional sources available on 10 August 2026. The main evidence comes from Emerald’s serials collection, published pages from volumes in the series, Emerald’s book-publishing guidance, book peer-review guidance, book author guidelines, publishing ethics policies, and Emerald’s open-access guidance.

The ISSN Portal print record and online record were used to confirm serial identifiers. The supplied Scopus Source ID 21100264815 identifies the relevant Scopus source. Where a live official Scopus metric was not publicly retrievable, this page avoids inventing a value and clearly labels the secondary institutional metric snapshot used.

What Is Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice?

Emerald lists Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice among its tourism and hospitality book series. Published volume pages show a continuing serial identity across separately titled books. For example, Volume 9 was Quality Services and Experiences in Hospitality and Tourism, Volume 12 was Tourism Microentrepreneurship, Volume 13 was Poverty and Prosperity: Tourism in Rural China, and Volume 14 was Managing Destinations: From Theories to Practices. Each book carries its own ISBNs and volume DOI while the series retains ISSN 2042-1443.

This architecture explains why authors may see the title in Scopus or university journal-selection systems even though the publication object is a book series. Scopus indexes several source types, including book series. A researcher therefore needs to distinguish database indexing from publication format: being a Scopus source does not transform the series into a journal with monthly issues, standard article types or a permanent manuscript portal.

The series’ published description positions it as a venue where academic and industry leaders can discuss and synthesise issues critical to tourism. The intended contribution is not merely to place theory next to practice, but to examine how they inform each other. That makes the series particularly relevant to studies with a clear line from conceptual framing to destination, policy, management, community, visitor, business or industry implications.

Aims and Scope: Connecting Tourism Scholarship with Practice

Emerald’s series page in earlier published volumes states that the series responds to the gap between what is researched in academia and what is practised in industry. Each volume concentrates on a distinct current or emerging tourism theme and aims to show how theory and practice have evolved, been applied and influenced one another. The series also emphasises collaboration between academics and practitioners and the translation of research into outcomes that can matter beyond the university.

Across verified volumes and chapters, that remit has included destination governance, tourism development, knowledge management and knowledge transfer, service quality and visitor experience, tourism branding, climate change, Chinese outbound tourism, rural development, microentrepreneurship and destination management. A recent chapter in Volume 14, for example, applied a tourism destination model to cases in Brazil and Finland, illustrating the series’ willingness to combine conceptual tools with comparative destination practice.

Topics that can align well

• destination governance, management, marketing and stakeholder networks;
• sustainable tourism, climate response, community outcomes and tourism development;
• tourism entrepreneurship and microenterprise;
• visitor experience, service quality and hospitality practice;
• tourism branding, destination image and market behaviour;
• knowledge transfer among universities, governments, destinations and industry;
• tourism policy, planning, institutional arrangements and development outcomes;
• technology, online travel behaviour and digital destination practices where tied to a volume theme;
• case-based, comparative, conceptual, qualitative, quantitative or mixed-method research that produces a clear contribution to tourism knowledge and practice.

When a manuscript may be a weak fit

A technically sound tourism study can still be unsuitable if it does not match the specific edited volume. Work with little tourism relevance, purely abstract theory with no meaningful connection to practice, generic management research without a tourism contribution, or a chapter prepared without regard to the volume’s theme is more likely to be misaligned. The most important fit test is therefore not “Is this about tourism?” but “Does this chapter advance the exact intellectual and practical conversation of the current volume?”

Is Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice Indexed in Scopus?

The supplied source record identifies Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice with Scopus Source ID 21100264815 and provides the direct Scopus source link. Independent institutional records also map the series title and ISSN to that Scopus source identifier. Researchers can therefore identify the correct Scopus source confidently using the combination of title, ISSN 2042-1443 and Source ID 21100264815.

For high-stakes decisions—such as a university rule requiring an “active Scopus source,” a specific quartile, or indexing in the year of publication—open the live Scopus source profile immediately before committing to a volume. Scopus coverage status can change, and a chapter’s eventual indexing can depend on the indexed source metadata and the publication record delivered to the database. Contentxprtz does not guarantee indexing of any future chapter.

What the 2024 metric snapshot shows

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Journal Publishing Guide reports Scopus Journal Metrics (2024) for the series: CiteScore 0.8; Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous), with CiteScore percentile 33%; and Q4 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, with CiteScore percentile 8%. Because these are 2024 metrics surfaced through a university publishing guide rather than a live public Scopus metric page, they should be treated as a dated verification point, not as a permanent current score.

No current SJR, SNIP or Journal Impact Factor value was sufficiently verified from an authoritative public source during this review, so none is invented here. Researchers whose institution requires those indicators should check the applicable Scopus/SCImago/JCR record directly and document the reporting year.

What Does the Series Publish?

The publication unit is primarily the scholarly book chapter within a themed edited volume. Published contents show empirical chapters, conceptual chapters, case studies, introductions and syntheses. The exact chapter mix is determined by the focus of each book. Unlike many journals, the series does not present a universal menu such as “original article / review article / short communication” that applies unchanged to every volume.

Researchers should therefore work from the current call, invitation or editor brief. An empirical chapter may require a clear research question, method, findings and implications; a conceptual chapter may need a convincing theoretical synthesis and practical contribution; a case study needs enough analytical depth to move beyond description. In every format, a strong contribution should show why the work belongs in that particular volume and how it advances the bridge between scholarship and practice.

Who Should Consider Contributing?

The series may be relevant to tourism and hospitality academics, doctoral researchers, postdoctoral scholars, policy researchers and practitioners who can make a scholarly contribution to a specific volume theme. It can be especially attractive when a project has strong applied significance—for example, a destination governance case, a community tourism intervention, a sustainability framework tested in practice, or research on how organisations use tourism knowledge.

PhD scholars should first check their university’s publication rules. Some institutions treat Scopus-indexed book chapters differently from Scopus-indexed journal articles, and some doctoral regulations specify journals, quartiles or article types. The fact that a book series is indexed in Scopus should not be assumed to satisfy a requirement worded specifically as “journal article.” Obtain written clarification from the institution when necessary.

How Submission Works for a Book Series

No universal, always-open series-specific manuscript submission portal was verified for Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice. That is consistent with the structure of themed edited volumes. Contributors may be identified through scholarly networks, conferences, trade conventions, calls for chapters or direct editorial contact, depending on the volume. If an opportunity is active, the volume editor’s instructions take priority over generic publishing advice.

At publisher level, Emerald provides proposal forms for single-authored books, edited collections and new book series. Its process begins with proposal submission and internal editorial review, followed by external peer review where appropriate. For an individual chapter in an already commissioned edited volume, the workflow can be different: the contributor normally works with the volume editor and must follow the chapter brief and manuscript schedule supplied for that book.

Before you send a chapter or proposal

1. Confirm the exact volume title, theme, editor and submission route.
2. Read the chapter brief and check word count, abstract, keywords, headings, tables, figures and reference style.
3. Explain the chapter’s original contribution to the volume—not just to tourism generally.
4. Show both scholarly value and practical or policy relevance where the theme calls for it.
5. Clear permissions for third-party figures, tables, photographs and substantial quoted material.
6. Check authorship, conflicts of interest, ethics approval and consent documentation where relevant.
7. Keep underlying data, source records and analysis files organised so claims can be verified.

Manuscript Preparation and Referencing

Emerald maintains detailed book author guidelines covering manuscript preparation, permissions and reuse. However, a contributor should not assume that one generic word limit or reference arrangement applies to every Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice volume. Edited books can impose volume-specific specifications, so the editor’s current instructions should be treated as the controlling document.

As a publication-readiness step, make the chapter easy for an editor to evaluate. State the problem early, define the tourism context, explain the theoretical lens, describe the method transparently, distinguish results from interpretation, and connect implications to the volume’s practical concern. Tables and figures should add analytical value rather than repeat text. References should be complete, traceable and internally consistent.

Emerald’s permissions guidance is also important for edited books. Reusing third-party material may require permission depending on the content, licence and amount reproduced. Open-licence content does not automatically mean unrestricted commercial reuse; authors should check the specific Creative Commons terms and flag reused material appropriately.

What Is Known About Peer Review?

Emerald states that its book proposals undergo rigorous single-anonymous peer review: reviewers know the author’s identity, while authors do not know the reviewer’s identity. Emerald says it aims to return book-proposal feedback within 4–6 weeks. Reviewers consider the proposal’s originality, contribution, coverage, strengths, weaknesses and structure, and authors may be asked to revise and resubmit before a publishing offer is made.

This publisher-level statement should not be overgeneralised to every chapter in every edited volume. A chapter may be evaluated by the volume editors and/or external reviewers under a schedule specific to that book. This review did not find an official, series-wide average acceptance rate, chapter-review duration or guaranteed publication timeline for Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice. Authors should ask the relevant volume editor for the process that applies to the current project.

Open Access and Publication Fees

Emerald supports both green and gold open-access routes for book content. Under its green open access policy, book chapter authors can make the author accepted manuscript publicly available upon official publication through permitted repositories or websites, without an embargo and without paying an open-access processing charge. The publisher’s rules specify where that accepted manuscript may be shared.

Gold open access is also available for books and chapters, generally under a CC BY 4.0 licence. If gold OA is chosen, Emerald publishes chapter processing charges (CPCs) by length. At the time this page was researched, the public OA books page listed GBP 1,166 / USD 1,564 / EUR 1,341 for chapters under 5,000 words; GBP 1,484 / USD 1,988 / EUR 1,707 for 5,000–8,000 words; and GBP 1,908 / USD 2,555 / EUR 2,194 for 8,000–15,000 words, with tax rules potentially adding to the amount. These are publisher-wide OA prices, not evidence that every chapter in this series must pay a fee.

Authors should confirm the current fee and funding arrangement directly with Emerald before choosing gold OA. Emerald also states that processing-charge payment is independent of editorial and peer-review decisions. No fee should be interpreted as a route to acceptance.

Research Integrity, Authorship and AI Policies

Emerald states that it acts in accordance with the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Its publishing ethics policies cover originality, proper attribution, authorship, conflicts of interest, fabricated data, permissions, consent, ethical approval and other research-integrity obligations. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the work is original, that previous publication is disclosed where relevant, that third-party material is cleared, and that contributors receive appropriate credit.

Emerald’s current generative-AI policy is particularly important. It states that large language models cannot be credited as authors and that copywriting any part of a submission using a generative AI tool/LLM is not permitted, including generation of the abstract or literature review. Authors using tools for permitted purposes should read the current policy carefully because AI rules can change and may distinguish between generation, copy-editing and disclosure.

For Contentxprtz support, that means assistance should stay within ethical boundaries: language polishing, proofreading, structure review, reference consistency, formatting, permissions checks, presentation of the author’s own evidence and journal/volume-fit guidance. It should not fabricate research, invent citations, conceal inappropriate authorship, manufacture data, or claim influence over editors or reviewers.

How to Decide Whether the Series Fits Your Research

Start with the current volume rather than the series title alone. Read the volume description, call for chapters if available, and several recent chapters. Then ask whether your manuscript addresses the same level of problem, uses a credible scholarly approach, and provides an insight that matters to tourism practice, policy, management or community outcomes.

Publication-Readiness Checklist

• Verify the live Scopus source status and the metric year required by your institution.
• Confirm that a current volume, call or editor is accepting relevant contributions.
• Map the manuscript explicitly to the volume theme and intended reader.
• Strengthen the link between theory, evidence and tourism practice.
• Check that the research question, method, findings and limitations are internally consistent.
• Audit every reference for authenticity, completeness and correct citation.
• Check all tables, figures, images and quoted material for permissions.
• Confirm authorship order, contributor roles, conflicts, funding and ethical approvals.
• Review Emerald’s current AI policy before using any generative tool in manuscript preparation.
• Follow the editor’s exact chapter specifications rather than a generic journal template.
• Proofread for academic English, consistency, terminology and logical flow.
• Do not treat professional editing as a guarantee of acceptance or indexing.

How Contentxprtz Can Support Ethical Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can help researchers prepare a chapter or manuscript for a clearer editorial assessment while keeping authors responsible for the research and claims. Relevant support can include academic editing, proofreading, chapter-structure review, journal or series fit analysis, reference and citation formatting, figure/table presentation checks, language polishing for ESL authors, cover or proposal editing, and a final publication-readiness review.

For a source such as Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice, support is most useful when it begins with the specific volume brief. Editing can then focus on whether the chapter makes the expected theory–practice connection, whether the argument is coherent, and whether the format is consistent with the book editor’s requirements. Contentxprtz may also help authors identify questions to raise with the editor about length, permissions, OA, deadlines or contribution type.

Contentxprtz cannot guarantee acceptance, peer-review success, Scopus indexing, a particular quartile, citation performance or publication. Editorial decisions remain with the publisher and editors. Ethical support improves clarity and readiness; it does not create a privileged route through peer review.

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Sources Checked for This Profile

• Emerald Publishing — Serials collection
• Emerald — Volume 14 / Managing Destinations chapter record
• Emerald — Series description in published prelims
• Emerald — Submit your book proposal
• Emerald — Book peer review process
• Emerald — Books publishing author guidelines
• Emerald — Open access books and chapter processing charges
• Emerald — Author rights and green open access
• Emerald — Research and publishing ethics
• ISSN Portal — Print ISSN 2042-1443 and online ISSN 2042-1451
• Scopus — Source ID 21100264815
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Journal Publishing Guide — 2024 Scopus metric snapshot

Verification date: 10 August 2026. Indexing, metrics, editor roles, open-access prices and publisher policies can change. Confirm time-sensitive information on the linked official pages before submission.

Final Assessment

Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice is best evaluated as an Emerald thematic book series with a documented Scopus source identity, not as a conventional tourism journal. Its strongest fit is research that does more than describe tourism: it should connect a credible scholarly contribution with an applied, managerial, policy, destination, industry or community question relevant to a specific edited volume.

Before committing, verify the live Scopus status, your institution’s treatment of book chapters, the current volume opportunity, the editor’s requirements and any open-access choice. If those conditions align, the next task is not to imitate a journal article mechanically, but to prepare a rigorous chapter that belongs intellectually in that volume and communicates its value clearly to both researchers and practitioners.

Contentxprtz can support that preparation through ethical editing, proofreading, formatting, reference checking and publication-readiness review. At Contentxprtz, we don’t just edit; we help ideas reach their fullest potential.