Analysis of Hospitality, Leisure, and Tourism Studies in Chile

Ángel Acevedo-Duque, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz and Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda
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Ángel Acevedo-Duque: Facultad de Administración y Negocios, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz: Facultad de Administración y Negocios, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda: Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial—Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-20

Abstract: This article provides a scientific production overview of hospitality, leisure, and tourism studies in Chile, including key factors of interest regarding this social science subdiscipline. The fundamental knowledge contributions are examined using a scientometric approach (spatial, productive, of impact, and relational) based on data from records stored in the Web of Science (JCR and ESCI). This approach aims to critically analyze the scientific production on hospitality, leisure, and tourism (HLT) with contributions from authors affiliated with Chile, to respond to the connection between this research, the sectoral education, and sustainable development of the HLT industry. At the results level, an increase in scientific production in the last decade, a breadth revealed in publications’ quality terms, insertion in worldwide relevance co-authorship networks, an evolution from general issues to those of the discipline itself (cultural tourism, wine tourism, tourism marketing, hospitality industry, and sustainable tourism), a concentration on ecotourism education, and a disconnection between the diverse knowledge-producing centers and those of sectoral training were identified.

Keywords: scientometrics; hospitality; leisure; tourism; sustainable; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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