The African Journal of Sustainable Tourism (AJST) aims to make a constructive contribution to the achievement of sustainable tourism on the African continent through the provision of impactful, peer-reviewed articles. AJST strives to publish both conceptual and empirical papers and its focus is aligned to the following areas:
- Corporate social responsibility in the tourism industry
- Responsible tourism practices
- Community-based natural resource management and tourism
- Well-being of host communities
- Service quality and customer relationship management to enhance sustainability of business and entrepreneurial practice
- Capturing the economic benefits of tourism
- Protection of natural assets and the management of scarce natural resources.
- Ethical visitor management
- Innovative pedagogies to promote sustainable tourism education.
AJST promotes research within the discipline of tourism that promotes the sustainability of the industry, the community of tourism stakeholders, and the environment in which tourism activities take place. It serves as a platform for the collation, review, and dissemination of quality research that will contribute to the body of knowledge of tourism in order to enhance the sustainability of the industry.
Publications in this journal should be useful to the contribution of new understanding and insights into the complex realm of sustainable tourism. AJST seeks to publish research that contributes to the theoretical and applied discourse into the management of sustainable tourism in Africa in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Although the journal does not exclude submissions from outside the region, the contribution of the publications should be manifested to the continent. Submissions that do not exhibit a beneficial contribution to the region and that do not contribute to the development of new knowledge and theory will not be considered.