Copyright Policy

Culture and Environment Conservation Society believes in transparency in matter of copyright and copyright ownership.  Submission of contributions to the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism is made possible by a limited license grant from the author(s), who have retained all copyrights on the contributions. Hence the contributors of manuscript to JOHAT retain ownership of their original material.
This right only applies to the author or co-author of those articles that their name appears on directly. All other elements of the Journal including its name, structure and organisation are also protected by copyright and are the property of Culture and Environment Conservation Society.  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Under this licence an author or co-author is entitled to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor is not entitled to withdraw these liberties as long as the author or co-author follows the license terms.

Culture and Environment Conservation Society is dedicated to offer transparent opportunity for all academics, therefore, readers and librarians are free to make copies of articles published in JOHAT without seeking further permission if copies are for 1- academic commitments, 2- private use and study, 3- and not being traded to third party.
Rights and Permissions for Open Access
All articles published in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-4.0) Licence and can be distributed under these terms. Authors remain in full ownership of the copyright of those articles of which he or she is either author or co-author. Author are permitted to use the final published PDF of their article on their private website, institutional repository or any other free public server by providing a direct link to the JOHAT website.