Emerging Tourism Review (ETR) is committed to upholding the highest standards of academic integrity and ethical publishing practices in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal strives to ensure a rigorous, transparent, fair, and objective publication process for all authors, reviewers, editors, and other stakeholders.

• Authorship and Originality: Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are entirely original and have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, and uncredited paraphrasing, is strictly prohibited. All manuscripts are subject to similarity screening, with a maximum acceptable similarity index of 15%.

• Data and Digital Ethics: Given the journal’s focus on digital ecosystems and smart tourism, authors who use big data, artificial intelligence, digital footprints, or other forms of digital data must explicitly demonstrate compliance with applicable data protection and privacy regulations. Researchers are responsible for ensuring that data are collected and used ethically, that participant and user anonymity is adequately protected, and that potential algorithmic biases are identified and appropriately addressed.

• Double-Blind Peer Review: All submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Reviewers are required to evaluate manuscripts objectively, constructively, and confidentially. They must not disclose or use any information obtained through the review process, including research data, findings, or intellectual property, prior to publication.

• Editorial Fairness and Non-Discrimination: The editorial board evaluates manuscripts solely on the basis of their academic merit, originality, relevance to the journal’s scope, and methodological rigor. Editorial decisions are made without discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, religion, or institutional affiliation.

• Conflicts of Interest: Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any financial, professional, personal, or other conflicts of interest that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research, its findings, operational feasibility assessments, peer review, or editorial decision-making. Any potential conflict of interest must be disclosed at the earliest appropriate stage of the publication process.