20 years of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism: looking to the past and forward

ABSTRACT

This paper is an introductory paper to the Special Issue marking the 20th Anniversary of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. The aim of this paper is threefold: First, it briefly presents and give thanks to the persons involved in establishing and developing the journal to what it is today. Second is a presentation of the journal’s current standing. Third, it presents an overview of the ten main areas of research featured in the journal since its start. For each of the 10 areas, expert researchers within each field have been invited to review the SJHT publications related to their topic and propose a future research agenda. They are included as separate short papers in this issue (SJHT, Vol. 21, No. 1). Thus, this anniversary issue looks to the past and forward, aiming to inspire future event, hospitality, and tourism research relevant to the Nordic, as well as the North Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic regions.

KEYWORDS:

• Event
• hospitality
• tourism
• Scandinavian
• Nordic

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Notes

1 The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Wasa in Finland, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Roskilde University, Denmark, University of Otago, New Zealand, and Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

2 Impact Factor is a measure of how many times a paper on average is cited, the first two years after publication.

3 The Altmetric Attention Score is an automated algorithm representing a weighted count of the amount of attention the paper has got online.

4 CrossRef citations.

5 Numbers for downloads and citations retrieved November 11, 2020.

6 Number of articles included in each research area below may differ from the expert researchers’ systematic reviews included in the anniversary issue. This is due to differing selection criteria made by each expert team.

7 Marketing and Nordic place branding articles have been included in this overview while the expert researchers’ systematic review only focuses on what is typically Nordic in the marketing field of the journal.