Abstract
Over the years, literature on the topic of destination resilience has gained increasing attention in different fields (strategic management; sociology; etc.). Therefore, the potentiality of resilience in the tourism field has stimulated the definition and the implementation of strategies, policies, and activities addressed to mitigate risks and seize opportunities through open innovation attitudes in times of crisis. This work aims to contribute to the debate on tourist destination resilience by proposing a conceptual framework of destination resilience and open innovation based on a bibliometric analysis. Moreover, this article is intended as a starting point for a wider discussion of factors that contribute to destination resilience and therefore provides the basis to develop a toolkit of matrixes and approaches. Findings reveal that resilience assessment, as well as in terms of performance, remain undiscovered. Moreover, the present research poses some unresolved questions, shaping interesting future research directions.
Highlights
As regards the use of bibliometric analysis for the topic of destination resilience, there already exist academic contributions [58,59]; the attention and novelty of this research lies in the precise topic of destination resilience with specific reference to the open innovation paradigm, considering that the destination resilience literature could greatly benefit from adopting a more open-innovative viewpoint, integrating smart tourism principles into its frameworks
In order to have a more comprehensive outline of the destination resilience linked to the open innovation paradigm, we conducted a systematic literature review searching for the most relevant and more influencing papers in the current academic debate
Economic crises and natural disasters are the main phenomena investigated while the units of analysis are principally macro-aggregates, such as a country, a specific destination, or the whole tourism industry
Summary
The tourism industry is vulnerable to the impacts of major crises [9] In this light, to face the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters, the use of the resilience approach is frequently suggested by multiple scholars as the best approach to respond to disasters [10]. While there are multiple definitions of resilience, major variants of its concept include different perspectives and fields of application, such as ecological research, political sciences, organizational studies, etc. 14 defining ecological resilience as “the persistence of systems and of their ability to absorb change and disturbance, and still maintain the same relationships between populations or state variables”, providing further momentum to its adoption as an analytical construct. The first one considers resilience as a polysemic concept or a metaphor [23] and is defined as either an outcome
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