Sustainable Tourism Research Progress

Abstract

In recent years, scientific research on sustainable tourism has attracted wide attention, which has fueled the concomitant need to comprehend the current state of research in sustainable tourism. In order to identify the research status of sustainable tourism and explore the direction for future research, this paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 2,184 academic literature related to sustainable tourism. By using five bibliometric methods of citation analysis, co-analysis, co-occurrence analysis, burst detection analysis and timeline view analysis, this paper reviews and analyzes the study of sustainable tourism from three perspectives of performance analysis, collaboration networks analysis and keywords analysis. The popular issues in the current study, future research and limitations are also discussed in this paper. By systematically reviewing the academic literature on sustainable tourism, this paper expands and deepens the knowledge and understanding of relevant topics, and provides guidance and reference for scholars to carry out research on sustainable tourism in the future.

Interpretation and Practice of Sustainable Tourism Among Accommodation Providers

“…Despite the extensive and continuously growing literature (Zhang et al, 2022) on sustainable and responsible tourism, the contribution of the theory to practical implementation is limited (Waligo et al, 2013). One reason for this is the term "sustainable tourism" is somewhat contradictory or, according to Wheeller (2012), even paradoxical.…”

Mapping the landscape of tourism cities research: a bibliometric analysis of the International Journal of Tourism Cities

“…Another successful bibliometric analysis on a similar topic was conducted by Zhang, Xu, Skare, and Kraus (2022). Their study identified the most important research questions (RQs) and trends in sustainable tourism research.…”

“…Mulet-Forteza, Genovart-Balaguer, and Horrach-Rosselló (2022) proposed a bibliometric guide to help researchers undertake studies in the hospitality and tourism field. Another successful bibliometric analysis on a similar topic was conducted by Zhang, Xu, Skare, and Kraus (2022). Their study identified the most important research questions (RQs) and trends in sustainable tourism research.…”

A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainability Education in Tourism Universities

“…On the other hand, as the tentative theory of education for sustainable development states (A ˚hlberg et al, 2005), the growing importance of sustainability in the tourism sector has led to increased academic concern about how to incorporate this subject into the curricula of tourism universities (Bynum Boley, 2011). Many articles address the environmental perspective of tourism (S. Liu & Li, 2020;Moyle et al, 2021;Seguı´-Amortegui et al, 2019;C. Zhang, Xu, et al, 2022), but few have analysed the educational perspective of this relationship (Ochoa Jime´nez et al, 2022;Sharma et al, 2021).…”

“…Many articles address the environmental perspective of tourism (S. Liu & Li, 2020; Moyle et al, 2021; Seguí-Amortegui et al, 2019; C. Zhang, Xu, et al, 2022), but few have analysed the educational perspective of this relationship (Ochoa Jiménez et al, 2022; Sharma et al, 2021).…”