Abstract
PurposeHalal and Islamic tourism is gaining attention in the tourism literature in recent years. This study uses bibliometric analytical techniques to explore all the publications indexed in the Scopus database in the broad subject of Halal and Islamic tourism from 2004 to 2021.Design/methodology/approachThe authors found 238 publications that fit the function, subject and set criteria. The papers were analysed in terms of publication by knowledge area, number of studies published every year, contribution by countries, number of authors and most influential journals. VOS viewer was used to perform a visual analysis on co-occurrence of keywords and document citations.FindingsAccording to the findings, the Scopus database includes 151 (34.40%) documents on business, management and accounting, and 89 (20.27%) documents on social science. It was reported that 29 documents were published in 2018, followed by 54 documents in 2019 and 56 documents in 2021. Malaysia has contributed 86 documents on Islamic tourism, whereas Indonesia has contributed 64 documents. The paper also discusses other interesting findings.Research limitations/implicationsThe bibliometric analysis carried out was confined to Scopus data. Other national and international databases were not taken into account for this research.Originality/valueBetween 2004 and 2021, this study examined relevant studies on Halal and Islamic tourism. The study presents a concise review of the literature accessible to researchers working in this area and provides recommendations for future research.
Highlights
The tourism industry has been rapidly expanding over the past few decades, and it proved to be one of the most popular and promising industries globally (Ho et al, 2009; Shi et al, 2017; Zhao, 2018)
We have studies conducted in Indonesia on halal tourism (Abror et al, 2019; Adinugraha et al, 2021; Aji et al, 2020; Rahmawati et al, 2021; Ratnasari et al, 2020)
The findings show that Malaysia and Indonesia are extensively involved in Islamic tourism as these countries have the largest Muslim populations
Summary
The tourism industry has been rapidly expanding over the past few decades, and it proved to be one of the most popular and promising industries globally (Ho et al, 2009; Shi et al, 2017; Zhao, 2018). It analyses the number of publications by years, most popular authors with their citations, top listed journals in this area, author’s affiliating organization with their contributions, the countries where the articles were written, the studies with maximum citations and network analysis of keyword co-occurrence, document citation, co-citations of source and author’s citations.
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