We are pleased to announce the creation of the electronic Journal of Unconventional Parks, Tourism & Recreation Research (JUPTRR). We wanted a catchy name, and thought the letters were just close enough to Jupiter to be memorable. Then we discovered that as part of the zodiac,  Jupiter is said to govern good fortune, expansion, foreign travel, sports, and higher education. What better name then for a new kind of recreation journal?

The mission of the journal is to present a forum for research that is unconventional, or research and articles that represent out of the box thinking. While we respect the gravity of traditional research models and outlets, we feel there needs to be a home for satellite ideas that  would not normally be presented in conventional journals. JUPTRR promises to be a big place, with plenty of room for all sorts of ideas.

The Jovian editorial staff at JUPTRR wishes to be inclusive of all types of research, so send us those papers you would never dare submit to more traditional journals. The journal will be published electronically at least once a year. Applied researchers, first-time authors, practitioners, graduate students, and researchers with a sense of exploration are encouraged to participate.

Current Issue: For its first special issue JUPTRR focused on dark tourism, the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions, and exhibitions which has real or re-created death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme (Stone, 2005). Examples of dark tourism locations include cemeteries, battlefields, prisons, hospitals, memorials, disaster sites, and haunted places. Special guest editors were Drs. Richard Sharpley and Philip Stone. 

If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer or submitting a manuscript, please contact:
 

Dr. Susan Van Patten, Executive Editor
Radford University
Box 6955
Radford VA 24142
(540) 831-7644
juptrr@radford.edu