20.500.12556/RUL-171496 Trends in sustainable tourism paradigm resilience and adaptation In recent decades, sustainable tourism has emerged as a central paradigm, attracting growing scholarly interest. External factors, such as the SDGs, climate change agendas, smart and digitalized tourism, cyber and astronaut travel, pandemics, and shifting trends in economic competitiveness, mass tourism, and overtourism, are shaping the 21st-century paradigmatic landscape, challenging both the theoretical “what” and practical “how” of the sustainable tourism paradigm. Using Kuhn’s paradigmatic framework and the Web of Science bibliometric database from 1991 to 2022, this analysis traces trends in sustainable tourism research, advances in academic communication through influential co-citation networks and interdisciplinarity, and the emergence of alternative and quasi-paradigms. The findings suggest, first, a positive trend in tourism scholarly research production; second, weak and diverse communication and interdisciplinarity, as scholars do not sufficiently collaborate in co-citations; and third, the coexistence of the sustainable tourism paradigm with numerous alternative, rival, and quasi-paradigms. The lack of influential knowledge communication highlights the need for the academic tourism community to reconsider its knowledge generation practices. Enhanced collaboration through co-citation and interdisciplinary cooperation is crucial for fostering a deeper and shared understanding of multiple tourism-related concepts. Further thematic and interactive research is needed on the resilience and adaptability of the sustainable tourism paradigm. This article contributes to advancing sustainable tourism scholarship by advocating for a more influential and adaptable paradigm to ensure its relevance amidst emerging challenges. sustainable development sustainable tourism paradigm resilience competing paradigms interdisciplinary integration turizem resilience trajnostni razvoj true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-08-27 11:26:00 2025-08-27 11:30:34 2025-09-04 03:44:58 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 17 str. iss. 17, article no. 7838 Vol. 16 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 338.48 2071-1050 10.3390/su16177838 207380483 sustainability-16-07838_(1).pdf sustainability-16-07838_(1).pdf 1 0035BD1B5015522C4971C53E44C996A2 381aa9dff091bbc5591daacb3352d13686469d3c8dbc48f786cddf001b29be33 370fc549-8328-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=214842 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/17/7838 0 3b7e3db0-8328-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=214843 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0