Aims and Scope

CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics is a biannual, peer-reviewed, diamond open access academic journal published by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Department of Tourism and Geography. Founded in 2010, the journal publishes rigorous, relevant, and innovative research in tourism, hospitality, services, management, and economics, with strong connections to tourism geography, destination development, and the wider service economy.

CACTUS aims to publish rigorous, relevant, and innovative research that advances understanding of the transformations shaping tourism, hospitality, and related services at local, regional, national, and international level. The journal welcomes contributions that connect academic research with professional practice and that help explain how destinations, organizations, institutions, and communities respond to economic, social, technological, environmental, and organizational change.

CACTUS also aims to support the broad dissemination of knowledge through its Diamond Open Access model, offering free access to readers worldwide and charging no submission fees or article processing charges (APCs) to authors. The journal is committed to a fair, constructive, transparent, and efficient editorial and peer review process, helping authors understand the path from submission to publication while upholding academic rigor and integrity.

The scope of the journal covers a broad range of themes in tourism business, tourism management, tourism economics, hospitality management, service management, and the economics of tourism and services. CACTUS is particularly interested in research that addresses destination management and competitiveness, tourism marketing, hospitality marketing, customer experience, tourist behavior, service quality, tourism development, regional development, tourism policy, tourism entrepreneurship, tourism education, tourism workforce and employment, organizational practices in tourism and services, and human resources in hospitality and tourism.

The journal also welcomes studies focused on destination development, tourism competitiveness, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism, smart tourism, tourism innovation, digitalization in tourism, digital transformation in hospitality, tourism geography, spatial analysis in tourism, cultural tourism, heritage tourism, rural tourism, urban tourism, event tourism, food tourism, wellness tourism, ecotourism, tourism resilience, tourism recovery, and tourism and social inclusion.

CACTUS publishes conceptual, empirical, comparative, and methodological research, including qualitative studies, quantitative analyses, mixed methods research, case studies, bibliometric studies, cluster analysis, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and other approaches relevant to tourism and hospitality research. The journal encourages interdisciplinary perspectives and welcomes contributions that strengthen dialogue between tourism studies, hospitality research, business research, management research, economics, geography, and service studies.

CACTUS is committed to a fair, constructive, transparent, and efficient editorial and peer review process. The journal supports authors through clear communication, objective standards, and a transparent workflow across the submission, peer review, and publication process.

Its editorial approach is designed to uphold academic integrity while helping authors understand the path from submission to publication. By combining rigor, transparency, and timely decision-making, CACTUS seeks to maintain high scholarly standards and foster meaningful academic dialogue in tourism, hospitality, and related fields.