Abstract
Background: The aim of the research was to acquire knowledge as to how the development of scientific publications looks, while also to specify the scope of research on the area of ski tourism. The research process is concentrated on the following research questions: In what way has the scientific output developed in the field of research on ski tourism? Who is the principal participant (countries, universities, authors, titles of sources) in the accumulation of research in a particular field? Method: In the process of selecting the test sample as a source of bibliometric data the Scopus database was applied. The test sample (N=1500) consisted of publications that contained such phrases in their works as “ski tourism”, “ski hotels”, “ski resorts” in their titles or key words. A general profiling of publications was conducted in order to assess the trends in scientific output and the acknowledgement of the leading co-workers in the field of research. MS Excel was applied for the purpose of supporting the process of analysis and the visualization of results. Results: The analysis indicates that research on ski tourism is one of the aspects of great tradition. This has gained increasingly great interest among academic environments, which led to the breakthrough growth in the number of publications in 2006 indexed in the Scopus database. This publication output encompasses 26 research areas. Conclusions: The principal areas yielding the largest number of publications with regard to ski tourism are to be found in social sciences and science on the environment. The main authors and co-authors in this field are as follows: representatives from the EU and the USA, while the most productive research institution is Universität Innsbruck. The author of the greatest number of publications is Prof. Daniel Scott (University of Waterloo, Canada). The EU is one of the main sponsors.
Highlights
Winter tourism has been dominated, both in terms of marketing as well as scientific publications, by almost the sole focus on winter sports, skiing [1]
Ski tourism may be viewed as universal physical activity combined with the experiencing of impressions or social situations associated with the execution of the preferred activities in the open air while having contact with nature
The question arises here as to what the access to specialized literature relating to ski tourism is ? Are there many works on this subject that could be recommended to others ? This is why the aim of this paper is to acquire knowledge on the development of scientific output and the specification in the area of scope on the subject of ski tourism researches
Summary
Winter tourism has been dominated, both in terms of marketing as well as scientific publications, by almost the sole focus on winter sports, skiing [1]. The ski tourism associated with this is one of the most popular winter activities worldwide [2,3] In this case, we are referring to such categories of activities that are associated with the possibilities of satisfying a multitude of various needs, including biological and psycho-social needs [4,5]. Results: The analysis indicates that research on ski tourism is one of the aspects of great tradition. This has gained increasingly great interest among academic environments, which led to the breakthrough growth in the number of publications in 2006 indexed in the Scopus database.
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