Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

Mercedes Jiménez-García, José Ruiz-Chico and Antonio Rafael Peña-Sánchez
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Mercedes Jiménez-García: Department of General Economy and Research University Institute for Sustainable Social Development, University of Cadiz, 11003 Cadiz, Spain
José Ruiz-Chico: Department of General Economy and Research University Institute for Sustainable Social Development, University of Cadiz, 11003 Cadiz, Spain
Antonio Rafael Peña-Sánchez: Department of General Economy and Research University Institute for Sustainable Social Development, University of Cadiz, 11003 Cadiz, Spain
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Mercedes Jiménez García

Land, 2020, vol. 9, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Tourism and landscape are broad and complex scientific research fields, as is the synergy between them has given rise to a volume of articles diverse in nature, subject matter and methodology. These difficulties mean that, at present, there is no complete theoretical framework to support this tourism and landscape research, nor complete knowledge of its structure and organization. This motivates the present work, which constitutes the first attempt at mapping this research topic by applying bibliometric techniques using VOSviewer and Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool (SciMAT) software. A total of 3340 articles from journals indexed in Web of Science were analyzed. The results obtained confirm that interest in the study of these concepts has been growing, especially in the last decade. The main contribution of this work lies in the identification of work themes that were basic to the construction of the field but that are currently in decline, such as “cultural heritage” and other themes important to the field that should continue to be dealt with, such as “national parks” or “geotourism”. The transversal nature of sustainability that appears in the network of keywords related to currently emerging themes, such as “planning” and “environment”, is also highlighted and reinforced.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; Web of Science; SciMAT; VOSviewer; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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