Journal of Turkish Tourism Research adopts open access policy. Open access to information benefits the humanity as it improves the global value of information. Journal of Turkish Tourism Research also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative that was signed on September 12, 2012. Thus, the open access policies adopted by the editorial board of Journal of Turkish Tourism Research can be found at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations.

All articles published in Journal of Turkish Tourism Research are licensed with “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License“. This license entitles all parties to copy, share and redistribute all the articles, data sets, figures and supplementary files published in this journal in data mining, search engines, web sites, blogs and other digital platforms under the condition of providing references. Open access is an apporach that eases the interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. Journal of Turkish Tourism Research, therefore, contributes to its own field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process.

Journal of Turkish Tourism Research recommends that libraries include the article contents into library catalogue records.

Journal of Turkish Tourism Research, guarentees that it will not ask for any publication fees from any library or reader to access the electronic articles.