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Sustainable Tourism: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Open Access
|Aug 2024

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

MethodologySource: Own elaboration.
MethodologySource: Own elaboration.

Figure 2:

Number of papers obtained per criteriaSource: Own elaboration.
Number of papers obtained per criteriaSource: Own elaboration.

Figure 3:

Number of publications per yearSource: Own elaboration.
Number of publications per yearSource: Own elaboration.

Figure 4:

Countries of origin per number of publicationsSource: Own elaboration.
Countries of origin per number of publicationsSource: Own elaboration.

Figure 5:

Clusters of different co-authorship links betwe en authorsSource: VOSviewer.
Clusters of different co-authorship links betwe en authorsSource: VOSviewer.

Figure 6:

The cluster with the most links of co-authorshipSource: VOSviewer.
The cluster with the most links of co-authorshipSource: VOSviewer.

Figure 7:

Average year of publication per co-authorship clusterSource: VOSviewer.
Average year of publication per co-authorship clusterSource: VOSviewer.

Figure 8:

Clusters of Keyword Co-occurrencesSource: VOSviewer.
Clusters of Keyword Co-occurrencesSource: VOSviewer.

Figure 9:

Clusters with keywords with 3 or more co-occurrencesSource: VOSviewer.
Clusters with keywords with 3 or more co-occurrencesSource: VOSviewer.

Figure 10:

Links between keywords from Cluster 5 and the remaining clustersSource: VOSviewer.
Links between keywords from Cluster 5 and the remaining clustersSource: VOSviewer.

Cluster analysis

ClusterKeywordsAnalysisAuthors
Cluster 1
  • Capitalism

  • Climate Change

  • CO2 Emissions

  • Economic Growth

  • Energy Consumption

  • Growth

  • Impact

  • Sustainable Development

  • Tourism

Tourism plays an important role in the world’s economic growth and must also play a key role in climate change, by decreasing its CO2 emissions and reducing its negative impact, focusing especially on the type of energy consumption. Tourism must guarantee its growth is based on sustainable development and should consider greener forms of tourism such as ecotourism. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the resilience of the sector and that many tourist destinations have been affected by overtourism.(Alola et al., 2019; Azam et al., 2018; Comerio & Strozzi, 2019; Gannon et al., 2021; Geng et al., 2020; Gössling & Hall, 2019; Paramati et al., 2017; Rasoolimanesh et al., 2019; Rej et al., 2022; Rico et al., 2019; Sharpley, 2020; Talwar et al., 2020; Vuille et al., 2018; Xuefeng et al., 2022)
Cluster 2
  • Challenges

  • Gender

  • Governance

  • Overtourism

  • Policy

  • Resilience

  • Sustainability

Governance plays a key role in developing policies focused on sustainability. The industry has faced different challenges in the past and proved to be a resilient sector and a booster to the economy. However, bigger challenges have not been yet overcome such as gender inequality and overtourism. Future management frameworks must include attitudes supporting the current challenges tourism faces.(Alarcón & Cole, 2019; Fletcher et al., 2019; Gonzalez et al., 2018; Hall et al., 2020; Koens et al., 2018, 2021; Li et al., 2022; Oklevik et al., 2019; Robinson et al., 2019; Sobaih et al., 2021)
Cluster 3
  • Conservation

  • Ecosystem Services

  • Ecotourism

  • Management

  • Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable tourism management must take into consideration other systems that might be secondary in relation to the tourism activity. A greener form of tourism, like ecotourism, plays an active role in guaranteeing the conservation of a destination and its resources.(Borja et al., 2020; Büscher & Fletcher, 2019; Filimonau & De Coteau, 2019; Gentry et al., 2020; Grilli et al., 2021; Higgins-Desbiolles, 2018; Khanra et al., 2021; Kleitou et al., 2021; Niewiadomski, 2020; Rotter et al., 2021; Spalding et al., 2017)
Cluster 4
  • COVID-19

  • Planned Behavior

  • Satisfaction

  • Travel

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the world of travel. Now, individuals must be even more conscious of their actions and impact.(Cheer, 2020; de Kervenoael et al., 2020; Galvani et al., 2020; Han, 2021; Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020b, 2020a; Ioannides & Gyimothy, 2020; Romagosa, 2020; Sharma et al., 2021)
Cluster 5
  • Attitudes

  • Framework

  • Quality

  • Support

Reveals the importance of establishing a management framework in recovering from COVID-19 based of real attitudes and sustainable and planned behaviour to obtain more sustainable tourism without compromising service quality and satisfaction.(Boluk et al., 2019; Dolnicar et al., 2019; Pizzi et al., 2020; Ramkissoon, 2020.; Tussyadiah, 2020; Xiang et al., 2021)

Themes of the top 5 highly cited papers_

TitleAuthorYearTheme
Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish forHall et al.2020Pandemics and Crisis Management
Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19Higgins-Desbiolles2020COVID-19 for social and ecological justice
Dynamic impact of trade policy, economic growth, fertility rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on ecological footprint in EuropeAlola et al.2019Energy Consumption
Is Overtourism Overused? Understanding the Impact of Tourism in a City ContextKoens et al.2018Overtourism
The Effects of Tourism on Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions: A Comparison between Developed and Developing EconomiesParamati et al.2017Economic Growth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejthr-2024-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2182-4924 | Journal ISSN: 2182-4916
Language: English
Page range: 127 - 139
Submitted on: Oct 18, 2023
Accepted on: Feb 16, 2024
Published on: Aug 9, 2024
Published by: Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 times per year

© 2024 Isabel Sofia Loureiro, Vânia Costa, Alexandra Malheiro, published by Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
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