Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Over the years, literature on the topic of destination resilience has gained increasing attention in different fields (strategic management; sociology; etc.). Therefore, the potentiality of resilience in the tourism field has stimulated the definition and the implementation of strategies, policies, and activities addressed to mitigate risks and seize opportunities through open innovation attitudes in times of crisis. This work aims to contribute to the debate on tourist destination resilience by proposing a conceptual framework of destination resilience and open innovation based on a bibliometric analysis. Moreover, this article is intended as a starting point for a wider discussion of factors that contribute to destination resilience and therefore provides the basis to develop a toolkit of matrixes and approaches. Findings reveal that resilience assessment, as well as in terms of performance, remain undiscovered. Moreover, the present research poses some unresolved questions, shaping interesting future research directions.

“Building back better”: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience of the hospitality and tourism industries

“…These collaborative efforts, in turn, lead to an enhanced tourism industry, which is able to mitigate risks, minimize costs and reduce the overall impact caused by the pandemic (Della Corte et al, 2021;Kušcer et al, 2022).…”

“…This notion is also consistent with the key indicators of building destination resilience since resilient destinations are perceived to be associated with social structures, stakeholder relations and community involvement that provide support to vulnerable groups (Traskevich and Fontanari, 2021). These collaborative efforts, in turn, lead to an enhanced tourism industry, which is able to mitigate risks, minimize costs and reduce the overall impact caused by the pandemic (Della Corte et al , 2021; Kuščer et al , 2022).…”

“…Indeed, in conducting a literature review on the impact of COVID-19 on consumer research, Šerić and Šerić (2021) confirmed that technology adoption and communication were the second dominant research domain within the hospitality and tourism marketing. Moreover, with specific focus on destinations, Della Corte et al (2021) showed that pervasive technological infrastructure and innovation are linked with enhancing destination resilience and performance in addressing the adverse impact of COVID-19. Consistent with these findings, our review uncovered that some studies exclusively examine the adoption of new technologies for the purpose of innovations (Chan et al , 2021; Martin-Rios et al , 2020; Rather, 2021; Shin and Kang, 2020), while others investigate the optimization of existing technologies in marketing.…”

Contemporary sustainability themes in tourism and hospitality during and post COVID‐19: Critical review and a step strategies forward for post the pandemic

“…Destinations may also enhance their sustainable outputs by being more resilient to exogenous and endogenous changes (Holladay, 2018). Della Corte (2021) argued that destination resilience may be accentuated by focusing on its drivers, namely technology innovation, absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities, knowledge and experience, and collaboration and networks. The bolstering of community resilience as a strategy to neutralize the socio‐economic repercussions of COVID‐19 may lead to significant and desired outcomes like self‐organization, solidarity, discipline, topophilia, and so forth.…”

Evolution of Activity Based Costing (ABC) - A Bibliometric Analysis

“…In contrary to any descriptive or systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis attempts to consolidate the fragmented published work with focus on geographical areas, pioneer authors, emerging themes and their industry inclination. There has been an increasing trend in studies applying this analysis technique in numerous areas such as financial literacy and behavior 14 , tourism management 15 , costing and accounting 16 , climate change 17 , economic research 18 , performance measurement 19 and innovation 20 . Thus, present study intends to understand the evolution of ABC on an objective basis and furnishes a sound base for future research directions in related area.…”