Safety and security research in tourism: a bibliometric mapping

Abstract

Safety and security are among the most basic needs in life and are essential in tourism as in other research areas; thus, researchers need to focus on the topic. Since the 1970s, when the first scientific paper on tourism safety was published, the number of research in this field has significantly increased. This study aims to carry out a bibliometric analysis on tourism safety and security research conducted over the past forty-five years. The literature on the subject includes 597 studies obtained from the Scopus database. VOSviewer scientific mapping software programme was used to perform the analysis. The software covers keywords of tourism safety and security topics, influential authors, publications, journals, and countries and identifies several techniques such as co-citation, concept association, and bibliographic coupling. The rapid increase in the number of research and citations shows that the topic of tourism safety and security has drawn the attention of researchers in the last 12 years. The analysis results revealed that the study with the strongest link with other publications is “Tourist's perceptions of safety and security while visiting Cape Town”. The researcher who contributed the most to the field with the author citation is Michael C. Hall; the journal making the most substantial impact is Tourism Management. Finally, the most productive country is United States of America. The current study contributes to expanding the literature on tourism safety and security and offers an overview for further research in this field.

Security and Securitization as Topics in Sustainability and Tourism Research

“…It has, to some extent, the quality of a literature review, but in this case, in our opinion, it seems justified. The latest published bibliometric work on security and tourism [56] included 597 works (from Scopus) and confirmed our results about the rapid increase in research and citations on this topic in the last 12 years. However, the remaining conclusions concerned indicators that we did not analyze in our work.…”

“…Another work in the field of text analysis of published articles on tourism was devoted to the length of tourist stay [61]. Apart from confirming the selection of the WoS database, in terms of the adopted indicators, it was similar to the work of A. Toker and O. Emir [56] but differed from it in the scope of the selection of topics of the analyzed texts.…”

“…The topic and the analytical and review nature of the work undertaken implied an analysis of available publications in the fields of security, tourism, and sustainable development [11,33,55,56]. The selection of publications was performed using the publicly available largest databases of indexed journals and scientific articles, Scopus and Web of Science.…”

Factors Influencing the Implementation of Tourism Culture: A Case Study

“…The case that often occurs is a request for money by a group of people by force without any clear reason. Even though this aspect of security is considered to be one of the supporters of the successful development of tourist attractions (Khalik, 2014;Suharto, 2016;Fanani & Pangestuti, 2017;Toker, A., & Emir, O. 2023).…”

“…Tourist objects here are considered to pay less attention to this aspect by respondents and can be one of the causes of not being able to attract tourist visits, even being an obstacle to returning. On the other hand, tourist attractions are not equipped with adequate security officers, both within and within tourist areas (Khalik, 2014;Suharto, 2016;Fanani & Pangestuti, 2017;Toker, A., & Emir, O. 2023).…”