Abstract
The influence of tourism on the environment has led to research on the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars from popular destinations and their governments are actively conducting sustainable tourism research, and their contributions to the field have achieved global renown. Without data from the natural sciences, knowledge from tourism dominates this area. This work utilizes content analysis to systematically review these studies to present the current state of existing research with the aid of visualization tools. The findings delineate the development of research on sustainable tourism in terms of collaboration, impact, knowledge base, and thematic coverage. Six major themes are selected to showcase recent trends in sustainable tourism research and guide future studies. Accordingly, this study can contribute to the development of sustainable tourism research and guide industry practices.
Highlights
In recent years, tourism has boomed into an eye-catching industry across the world because of the significant role it plays in stimulating consumption, promoting trade, and enhancing international communication
The present study explores the current condition of sustainable tourism research in terms of bibliometric and thematic analyses
Universities in Australia, the US, and Europe have established three large collaboration networks to carry out sustainable tourism research
Summary
Tourism has boomed into an eye-catching industry across the world because of the significant role it plays in stimulating consumption, promoting trade, and enhancing international communication. Ceballos Lascurain of the International Union for Conservation of Nature proposed the concept of sustainable tourism in 1983. The World Tourism Organization enriched the concept in 1998 through its explanation towards sustainable tourism, and sustainable tourism is defined as tourism development that can meet the demand of both tourists and host communities whilst preserving and improving the opportunity for future development [2]. Various government policies and multi-level conferences have been proposed, and different associations have been organized to promote sustainable tourism. Tourism scholars have fulfilled their roles as forerunners in the campaign by conducting studies to tackle sustainability from different perspectives, and their findings have made significant contributions to the promotion of sustainable tourism
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