The Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management (JHTM) (impact factor 7.6, SSCI) has proudly reached its 30th anniversary in 2024. To celebrate this significant milestone, we successfully launched the 30th JHTM Anniversary Online Research Festival, featuring a series of seven webinars held over the past two months. I am grateful to all who contributed to and participated in these events, and I deeply appreciate the wonderful feedback we’ve received.

The festival highlighted seven webinars covering cutting-edge research topics in tourism, hospitality, and events. With over 30 international speakers and panelists, along with hundreds of engaged online participants, the event proved to be a great success.

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone involved — panel members, chairs, speakers, and participants, among others. A special thanks goes to the JHTM associate editors, Cece, Joan, Mostafa, Aaron and Edmund, whose contributions were crucial to the success of this online festival.

All webinars have been recorded and are now available online for free as a community service by JHTM and CAUTHE.

I hope you find these resources useful for your teaching and research.

PLAY LIST – 30th JHTM Anniversary Online Research Festival

2024 JHTM 30th Birthday Webinar Program

1. A technology Forward Research agenda in tourism, hospitality and events
2. Service Management Revolution in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
3. Progress and Usefulness of Cognitive Psychology in Tourism and Hospitality experiences
4. Rules of engagement – Navigating the evolving landscape of sociocultural and political governance in tourism
5. Trends & Challenges in Destination Marketing & Management: does research have a solution?
6. Mapping the Event Management Research Frontier
7. Climate Change, Environmental Concerns, and Tourism: Current Trends and Future Agenda

The 30^th year anniversary of the JHTM will close with the publication of an anniversary Special Issue (limited open access for a period)  including perspective papers from our panel members. The special issue will be published and shared early 2025.

I cannot wait … can you? Thank you all for your support to JHTM and our community.

Wishing you all the best.

Marianna Sigala
Editor in Chief, JHTM