Economic Improvement, Environmental Sustainability, and Community Empowerment in Indonesia: Bibliometric Analysis (Smart City and Smart Tourism) Year 2013-2022

Abstract

This study aims to provide visualization of smart city and smart tourism trends using a database taken from Scopus from 2013 to 2022 using an approach with bibliometric and scientometric techniques. The data collection process goes through several steps, namely searching for literature through the Scopus database by entering keywords in the form of “smart city” and “smart tourism,” which are limited from 2013-2023 so that 189 articles of data are produced. Then, the data was analyzed using Scopus analysis and the CiteSpace application. This study, it was findings that namely 1) The number of publications on smart cities and smart tourism has shown an overall increase in the eight years from the last 2013-2021 period and decreased to 31 articles in 2022; 2) China is the country that studies “smart city” and “smart tourism” the most; and, 3) Through this research, the trend of smart city and smart tourism has been widely studied and obtained the top three subtopics including information and technology, augmented reality, and sustainability. The conclusion of this study shows that smart cities and smart tourism are topics of interest from 2013 to 2022. In addition, this study resulted in fourteen (14) clusters that have been analyzed using CiteSpace and show that China is the country that researches smart cities and smart tourism the most. This finding proves that smart cities and smart tourism do not only focus on technology development but involve social aspects such as economic, environmental, and social.