Top funders of tourism and hospitality research, 2023–2025

Research funders ranked by the papers in the 10 tracked tourism and hospitality journals that name them, in each year from 2023 to 2025. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2023 to 2025, National Natural Science Foundation of China was named as a funder of the most papers in the 10 tracked tourism and hospitality journals (515), followed by National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (103) and National Social Science Fund of China (93).
In 2025 alone, National Natural Science Foundation of China funded 237 of these papers.

Funders named on the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Funder	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	National Natural Science Foundation of China	112	166	237	515
2	National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences	32	43	28	103
3	National Social Science Fund of China	21	29	43	93
4	Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities	15	23	35	73
5	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	15	13	31	59
6	Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	7	17	29	53
7	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	6	21	20	47
8	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	17	16	13	46
9	European Commission	14	15	15	44
10	Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China	6	12	22	40
11	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	9	19	12	40
12	Ministry of Education	8	9	19	36
13	National Science and Technology Council	5	15	13	33
14	Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades	9	14	9	32
15	National Research Foundation of Korea	10	9	12	31
16	Universidade de Macau	6	10	14	30
17	Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province	11	11	7	29
18	Agencia Estatal de Investigación	4	14	9	27
19	Macau University of Science and Technology	3	9	14	26
20	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	7	10	8	25
21	European Regional Development Fund	7	9	7	23
22	Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan	9	8	5	22
23	National University's Basic Research Foundation of China	4	11	6	21
24	China Scholarship Council	2	8	10	20
25	Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China	6	4	10	20
26	Australian Research Council	4	7	8	19
27	Guangdong Office of Philosophy and Social Science	3	6	10	19
28	Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province	6	5	7	18
29	Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee	0	5	13	18
30	Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province	3	6	8	17
31	Interreg	7	5	2	14
32	Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China	1	4	9	14
33	Hospitality and Tourism Research Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	2	3	8	13
34	National Science Foundation	7	2	4	13
35	Chinese University of Hong Kong	5	5	2	12
36	Kyung Hee University	4	2	6	12
37	Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	3	2	5	10
38	Huaqiao University	6	2	2	10
39	J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation	2	4	4	10
40	Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province	2	1	7	10
41	Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior	1	2	6	9
42	Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China	2	5	2	9
43	Narodowe Centrum Nauki	3	3	3	9
44	Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province	0	2	7	9
45	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	2	3	4	9
46	Education Department of Hunan Province	1	2	5	8
47	Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University	4	1	3	8
48	Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province	0	1	7	8
49	Sichuan University	3	1	4	8
50	Social Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province	0	3	5	8

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Top funders of tourism and hospitality research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/tourism-and-hospitality

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  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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