Mapping a Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Paradigm: A Bibliometric and Citation Network Analysis

Tanja Mihalic, Sahar Mohamadi, Abbas Abbasi and Lóránt Dénes Dávid
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Tanja Mihalic: School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sahar Mohamadi: Department of Management, Shiraz University, Shiraz 7194684334, Iran
Abbas Abbasi: Department of Management, Shiraz University, Shiraz 7194684334, Iran
Lóránt Dénes Dávid: Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Szent István University, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-22

Abstract: Sustainable tourism as a concept, and responsible tourism as its successful implementation, represent two major challenges for researchers in different academic fields and for tourism stakeholders in destinations responsible for sustainable tourism planning, policies, actions, and outcomes. This paper provides a bibliometric inventory of research published in the field of sustainable and responsible tourism (SRT). The results identify the publications on SRT; author cooperation between countries and their nodes; the disciplinary areas of SRT and the influential works, journals, and authors; and the bibliometric clusters. The aim of the study was to determine whether SRT has merged into a single “responsustainable” tourism discourse that could shift the mainstream paradigm of sustainable tourism towards the full content of SRT. The analysis was unable to confirm this shift towards an expanded paradigm of SRT but the results do indicate that SRT will remain an important area of tourism research for the foreseeable future.

Keywords: sustainable tourism; responsible tourism; responsustable tourism; bibliometric analyses; tourism paradigm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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