All submitted papers will be checked off their similarity via plagiarism software. When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

1

Minor

·   A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper

·   Action: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

2

Intermediate

·   A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

·   Action: The submitted article is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

3

Severe

·   A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

·   Action: The paper is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of the papers they submit because they all signed the Copyright Transfer Form for this Journal. If sanctions are imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same sanctions.

If a second case of plagiarism by the same author is identified, the decision regarding the action to be taken will be made by the editorial board (Editor-in-Chief and editorial members) in conjunction with the Chief Editor. The author may be permanently prohibited from submitting further articles. This policy also applies to materials reproduced from other publications by the same author. If an author uses previously published text or images, the relevant paragraphs or images must be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of review papers or tutorial papers, most of the previous material has already been published.

The author must identify the source of previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to the Journal of Tourism Economics and Policy that significantly overlaps with a manuscript submitted simultaneously to another journal, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publication of both papers, the editor of the other journal will be notified, and the case will be treated as a case of severe plagiarism.

Significant overlap means the use of identical or nearly identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism less than half the paper but more than a tenth of the paper, the case will be treated as moderate-level plagiarism. If the self-plagiarism is limited to the methods section, the case will be considered minor plagiarism. 

If an author uses some previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material must be identified, and the differences from the current publication must be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of manuscripts originally published in conference proceedings and subsequently submitted for publication in this Journal, whether in identical or expanded form, authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the publication date, and obtain permission for republication from the copyright holder.

The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication. However, the author is permitted to use material from unpublished presentations, including visual displays, in subsequent journal publications. In the case of publications initially submitted in another language, the title, date, and original publication journal