About the Journal
ISSN 2594-8407
Qualis B2
Aims and Scope
Ateliê do Turismo (AT) is an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal published on a continuous flow basis. Its primary objective is to disseminate original articles and essays that advance knowledge in the fields of Tourism and Hospitality and their interfaces with other areas of inquiry. Drawing on contributions from national and international scholars, the journal's mission is to provide a forum for scientific dialogue, dissemination, and reflection, fostering accessibility to academic research in Tourism and Hospitality. The journal has a national and international reach and accepts manuscripts written in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In addition to research articles and essays, it publishes interviews, experience reports, and book reviews of relevance to the scientific community in the field.
History and Trajectory
Ateliê do Turismo was founded in 2017 at the Aquidauana Campus of the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), with Prof. Dr. Izac de Oliveira Belino Bonfim and Prof. Dr. Guilherme Garcia Velasquez as its founding editors. The journal emerged as a space for scholarly exchange and the publication of research articles, critical reviews, and essays on topics related to tourism, hospitality, leisure, and related fields.
From 2018 to 2026, the journal was led, as associate editors, by Prof. Guilherme Garcia Velasquez, from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), and Prof. Rosislene de Fátima Fontana, from the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE), whose commitment was essential to the consolidation and growth of the publication. Between 2024 and 2026, the editorial team was further strengthened by Prof. Marcelo Vilela de Almeida, from the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade de São Paulo (EACH-USP), and Prof. Eros Salinas Chávez, from the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), whose contributions significantly advanced the journal's internationalization and scientific standing. In the most recent quadrennial evaluation conducted by CAPES, the journal was classified as Qualis B2. The journal expresses its deepest recognition and gratitude to all these scholars for their dedication and the legacy they have left to the tourism research community.
In 2023, the journal relocated to ESAN – Escola de Administração e Negócios (School of Business Administration), at the main campus of the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), where the undergraduate Tourism program is based.
New Editorial Phase — From 2026 Onwards
From 2026 onwards, Ateliê do Turismo embarks on a new editorial phase, with an even stronger emphasis on the quality and scholarly impact of published articles. This reorientation reflects the shift in the evaluation model adopted by CAPES, which now centers its assessment on individual articles and their contribution to scientific research, rather than on the journal as a whole. In this context, the journal restructures its team, welcoming new associate editors, adjunct editors, and a managing editor, reaffirming its commitment to scientific rigor, thematic diversity, and the internationalization of academic production in Tourism and Hospitality.
Open Access and Licensing
Ateliê do Turismo is an open-access scientific publication that provides free access to all its articles and content at no cost to readers or institutions. The journal is committed to ensuring the broad and inclusive dissemination of knowledge, promoting accessibility to research and contributing to academic and scientific advancement in the field of Tourism. All articles are published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which allows authors to retain copyright over their work and permits the public to reuse, share, and adapt the content, provided that proper attribution is given.
Manuscript Types Accepted for Publication
Ateliê do Turismo organizes its editorial policy around two complementary thematic axes, welcoming both qualitative, interpretive, and critical investigations and quantitative, applied, and management-oriented studies. Submitted manuscripts must explicitly indicate the axis to which they belong and meet the criteria for each modality described below.
| Manuscript Type | Description | Limit | Thematic Axis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Article | Empirical or theoretical-conceptual studies with an original contribution to the field of tourism and hospitality. Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches are accepted, provided methodological rigor is explicitly described. | Up to 10,000 words | Axis 1 or 2 |
| Systematic or Bibliometric Review | Studies that map, systematize, and critically analyze scientific production in a given field, following an explicit methodological protocol (e.g., PRISMA, ROSES) or conducting bibliometric/co-citation analysis with specialized software. Narrative reviews without a declared protocol are not accepted. | Up to 10,000 words | Axis 1 or 2 |
| Methodological Article | Works dedicated to the development, adaptation, or validation of instruments, scales, methods, or research techniques applied to tourism and hospitality. | Up to 8,000 words | Axis 1 or 2 |
| Research Note | Brief communications with concise accounts of a specific topic, emerging theme, theoretical development, or preliminary findings from ongoing research. | Up to 3,000 words | Axis 1 or 2 |
| Viewpoint | Substantiated opinion and interpretation by a researcher holding at minimum a Doctoral degree and/or Postdoctoral experience, on a topic of relevance to the field. Must present original, referenced argumentation. | Free | Axis 1 or 2 |
| Extension Report | Reports on university extension projects or programs focused on the external community and directly linked to tourism, hospitality, or leisure. | Up to 5,000 words | Axis 1 |
| Data Paper | Description of original, previously unpublished datasets deposited in an open-access repository, with methodological documentation of data collection and potential for use by the scientific community. | Up to 5,000 words | Axis 2 |
Thematic Axes
Axis 1 — Tourism, Territory and Society
This axis welcomes investigations that analyze tourism as a social, cultural, historical, geographical, and environmental phenomenon. It favors qualitative and interpretive approaches — without excluding mixed-methods studies — and articulates tourism with themes such as identity, memory, heritage, territory, communities, sustainability, traditional peoples, gender, race, leisure, and hospitality. Theoretical contributions of greater reflective depth and studies engaging with the humanities and social sciences are particularly encouraged.
Illustrative themes: tourism and indigenous peoples; cultural and intangible heritage; community-based tourism; tourism and territorial development; destination image and representation; hospitality and alterity; tourism, leisure, and everyday life; tourism and questions of gender, race, and class.
Axis 2 — Tourism, Management and Innovation
This axis welcomes research oriented toward management, planning, public policy, and innovation in the field of tourism and hospitality. It encompasses quantitative, econometric, and mixed-methods studies on destination marketing, tourist behavior, competitiveness, technology applied to tourism, governance, and tourism organization management. Applied research with direct contribution to sectoral practice or policy formulation is also accepted.
Illustrative themes: tourism destination management; regional tourism planning; public tourism policies; destination marketing; tourist consumer behavior; destination competitiveness; technological innovation in tourism; governance of tourism organizations; revenue management and pricing; tourism and creative economy; economic impact of tourism; tourism and entrepreneurship; hospitality and hotel management; digital transformation in the tourism sector.
General Guidelines
Ateliê do Turismo adopts a continuous publication flow system: as soon as an article is reviewed, approved, and copyedited, it is immediately published online, independently of closed issues. This policy aligns with international trends in scientific publishing, ensuring greater agility in knowledge dissemination.
Thematic dossiers are published through specific calls, proposed by one or more guest editors, with their own schedule announced in advance on the journal's website.
Contributions are accepted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Word limits include the title, abstracts, keywords, main text, references, notes, and figure and table captions.
Manuscripts that do not meet the minimum requirements for each modality, show evidence of content entirely generated by Artificial Intelligence, or fail to declare the use of Generative AI when applicable will be rejected at the editorial screening stage, prior to peer review.
