Abstract
Despite its importance to both tourism destinations and scholars, there is no record of research via bibliometric analysis of the length of stay (LOS). This paper, therefore, aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of LOS in tourism, based on publications in the Web of Science database (WOS). For this purpose, 60 documents published in top- tier tourism journals were analysed through bibliometric analysis. The research data was processed, and bibliographic display maps were created using the Visualisation of Similarities (VOS) viewer software. This study focuses mainly on 10 parameters, such as top contributing authors, countries and organisations, the most cited articles, the annual number of publications, the co-occurrence of author keywords in papers, the co-citation analysis of authors and journals, and the bibliographic coupling of countries and authors.
Highlights
Research on length of stay (LOS) in tourism destinations has featured in tourism literature since the 1970s (Mak et al, 1977)
Research Methodology This study aims to review the LOS literature using bibliometric analysis
Science mapping analysis was conducted since this is an important tool for analysing data in bibliometric studies (Andreu et al, 2020; Yoopetch & Nimsai, 2019)
Summary
Research on length of stay (LOS) in tourism destinations has featured in tourism literature since the 1970s (Mak et al, 1977). Many scholars have approached this concept from different perspectives to define the main determinants of LOS (Aguilar & Díaz, 2019; Alegre & Pou, 2006; Atsız et al, 2020; Barros et al, 2008; Bavik et al, 2020; Boto-García et al, 2019; de Menezes et al, 2008; Gokovali et al, 2007; Rodríguez et al, 2018; Thrane, 2016; Thrane & Farstad, 2012; Yang et al, 2011). Previous studies have generated a wealth of knowledge on LOS and its determinants. A review of this knowledge via a bibliometric analysis can contribute to the relevant literature
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