Mapping a sustainable and responsible tourism paradigm : a bibliometric and citation network analysis

Mihalič, Tanja (author), Mohamadi, Sahar (author), Abbasi, Abbas (author), Lóránt, Dénes Dávid (author)

Sustainable tourism as a concept, and responsible tourism as its successful implementation, represent two major challenges for researchers in different academic fields and for tourism stakeholders in destinations responsible for sustainable tourism planning, policies, actions, and outcomes. This paper provides a bibliometric inventory of research published in the field of sustainable and responsible tourism (SRT). The results identify the publications on SRT; author cooperation between countries and their nodes; the disciplinary areas of SRT and the influential works, journals, and authors; and the bibliometric clusters. The aim of the study was to determine whether SRT has merged into a single “responsustainable” tourism discourse that could shift the mainstream paradigm of sustainable tourism towards the full content of SRT. The analysis was unable to confirm this shift towards an expanded paradigm of SRT but the results do indicate that SRT will remain an important area of tourism research for the foreseeable future.

• Language: English
• Keywords: tourism, sustainable development, bibliometric analysis, sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, responsustable tourism, tourism paradigm
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 22 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 13, iss. 2, art. 853
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134884
• UDC: 502.131.1
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su13020853
• COBISS.SI-ID: 47403011
• Publication date in RUL: 10.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 16.01.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: turizem, trajnostni razvoj, bibliometrična analiza

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0117
• Name: Trajnostna konkurenčnost slovenskega gospodarstva v evropskem in globalnem okviru