Relevance of Impact Studies on the Environmental Impacts of Tourism and Sustainability

Abstract

The chapter investigates the relationship and trends in tourism-environmental impact studies in research communities for past 10 years. It discusses the various components and categories of the environmental impacts within context to the tourism. To achieve the purpose, a bibliometric study of the Scopus-indexed publications was conducted and analyzed for three themes using the Scopus search-defined parameters. During the search defining parameters, a total of 125, 28, and 88 relevant documents were obtained from the database for the theme, tourism-environmental impact overall studies, tourism-environmental impact and carrying capacity, socio-cultural and perception-based relevant studies, respectively. Based on the results, the authors conclude that there is a significant increase in environmental impact and tourism-related studies in the past 10 years. European countries have a major contribution towards environmental impact and tourism studies as compared to other Asian countries. The technical studies using tools of assessment for environmental impacts and tourism linkages is still insufficient.

Defining the Balearic Islands’ Tourism Data Space: An Approach to Functional and Data Requirements

“…The most cited articles in the field of bibliometric research in tourism (Appendix A Table A2) refer to various themes: tourism in the framework of the circular economy [45]; scientific research networks in the field of tourism [46]; quality of research in tourism according to academic rankings [47]; social media research [48]; innovation in hospitality and tourism [49]; economic impact of tourism [41]; trends and patterns in sustainable tourism [50][51][52]; tourism and gender [53]; crisis and disaster management [54]; wine tourism [55]; medical tourism [56]; food and gastronomy [57]; adventure tourism [58]; travel and tourism marketing [59]; tourism, leisure, and hospitality [60]; tourism statistics [61]; intangible cultural heritage [62]; geo-tourism [63]; and psychological research [64].…”