We, the Editors and Publisher of Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, are retracting the following article: Suyan Shen, Zhimin Qiu & Jian Xu, Estimating the relative resilience in tourism-based historic districts to continued tourism development, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2015.1117502
We are now cognisant the article contains portions of the authors' writings and other authors' writings on the same topic without sufficient attribution to these earlier works.
This action constitutes a breach of warranties made by the authors with respect to originality and of our policy on publishing ethics and integrity. We note we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on these warranties, and censure this action.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as retracted.