The American Journal of Tourism Research (AJTR) is an interdisciplinary scientific journal in the field of tourism. The journal publishes theoretical, conceptual and empirical research that explores one or more of the economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental aspects of tourism. The journal is published in both printed and online versions.

The scope of the journal is international and encompasses research into tourism aspects as well as the development of new research approaches. AJTR welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism such as economics marketing, psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology.