Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are made freely and immediately available online to readers worldwide without subscription, registration, or access charges.

Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise use the full text of published articles in accordance with the journal's applicable Creative Commons license.

The journal does not impose an embargo period on access to published articles.

Immediate Open Access
All articles are freely accessible from the date of publication. No subscription or payment is required to access the journal's scholarly content.

Open Access Principles

The open-access policy of Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business is intended to promote the broad dissemination, accessibility, discoverability, and responsible reuse of scholarly research.

The journal supports the principle that scholarly literature should be accessible through the public internet and available for legitimate scholarly, educational, professional, and other lawful uses, subject to proper attribution and the conditions of the applicable license.

Budapest Open Access Initiative

The journal's open-access approach is consistent with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) .

Under the principles of open access, scholarly literature should be freely accessible through the public internet, enabling users to read, download, distribute, search, link to, and make other lawful uses of published research without financial barriers, while respecting authorship, attribution, copyright, and applicable licensing conditions.

Rather than reproducing the complete text of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, readers are encouraged to consult the official BOAI website for the complete declaration and subsequent recommendations.

License and Reuse

Articles published in Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) .

Under this license, users may share and adapt published material, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same or a compatible ShareAlike license as required by CC BY-SA 4.0.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License .

Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their published work. By publishing with Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and authorize the journal to publish, disseminate, preserve, and make the work publicly accessible.

Detailed information concerning copyright, licensing, and author publishing rights is available on the journal's Copyright and License Policy .

Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted to deposit their manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other appropriate open-access repositories.

Authors may archive both submitted manuscripts and the final published version. When the version of record is deposited, authors should acknowledge its original publication in Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business and include the DOI or journal article URL where available.

The journal does not impose an embargo period on author self-archiving.

Reader Access Charges

Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business does not charge readers or their institutions any subscription fee, paywall fee, or other charge to access published articles.

Any Article Processing Charge (APC) applicable to authors is independent of reader access and does not restrict public access to published content.

Open Access Commitment
Apollo: Journal of Tourism and Business is committed to ensuring that scholarly knowledge is immediately accessible, reusable under clearly stated licensing terms, and available to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, institutions, and the public without financial barriers.