About the Journal

International Journal of Tourism, Education, Language and Social Science Studies is open access, a blind peer-reviewed international journal published in English and Turkish. IJTELSS does not charge authors for submission or publication. It aims to publish high-quality research papers in all related areas of education, language and tourism including social sciences such as economics, business, management, history, geography, sociology, social psychology, ethics, etc.
The scope of IJTELSS encompasses theoretical or empirical research articles, original research reports, reviews, scientific commentaries including both controversial and innovative ideas and detailed contributions from other directly related fields such as econometrics, economic development, language studies, social sciences, statistics, trade, and the environment and political economy.
Manuscripts are reviewed in an unbiased manner, receiving prompt attention by the editorial office and its referees. After a preliminary assessment of the suitability of the paper by the Editors, any paper will follow a double-blinded peer-review process. The goal of the Editorial Office is to provide the referees' reports, and the final decision, within six weeks since submission.
The whole process will be handled by the Editors, to whom all inquiries should be addressed. Articles for consideration should be submitted using the online submission form. Submissions through e-mail will not be considered. Submission is electronic only.
The IJTELSS is committed to keeping the content of all submissions confidential until the publication date. Although we make every possible effort to ensure reviewers honor their confidentiality commitments, we cannot be held responsible for the conduct of reviewers. Reviewers should be aware that it is our policy to keep their names confidential, and that we do our utmost to ensure this confidentiality.
The IJTELSS is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their works to the IJTELSS for publication as original articles ought to prove that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden for IJTELSS. The authors acknowledge that they have disclosed all and any actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it. The papers holding plagiarism rate over 20 % is not acceptable.
General principles and purposes of The IJTELSS are listed below:
• The IJTELSS is a peer-reviewed journal
• The IJTELSS publishes biannually. These are in June and December
• The IJTELSS publishes in Turkish, English, Kurdish and Russian.
• Scientific articles are published, and empirical (practical/experimental) researches are given priority in the journal.
• The responsibility of opinions expressed in articles entirely belong to the authors
• The studies submitted to IJTELSS for publications must not be published in other journals before.
• The studies submitted to The IJTELSS should be prepared by entirely obeying the scientific ethics rules.
• All copyrights related to publishing articles belong to the journal.
• Copyright fees or any other payments under another name are not paid to the authors for their articles.

The authors who submit studies to the journal are considered as agreed not to demand this kind of claim.