Abstract
Promoting the tourism policy by Taiwan government brings about the prosperity of the tourism, hospitality, and leasure subjects, which also sparks off the flourish of academic genre. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the core themes of tourism, hospitality and leisure academic research by analysis citations in the Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies. This paper is an empirical analysis of citations and co-citations from the 5,542 citations in the 203 articles published in Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies between 1995─2008. In this article, network analysis and factor analysis techniques are used to analysis and group the data. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of tourism, hospitality and leisure research. The study identified that the core ideas of tourism, hospitality and leisure research centred on service quality and marketing. Also identified are some periphery areas which had little attention. The results of this study will provide relevant information for the researches as well as subsequent studies.
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