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Unregistered labour in tourism: A bibliometric analysis of immigrant workers’ challenges and research trends Cover

Unregistered labour in tourism: A bibliometric analysis of immigrant workers’ challenges and research trends

By: Bartola Mavrić and  Orhan Akova  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Annual number of publications on unregistered labour in the tourism industry from 1992 to 2024, highlighting a notable increase in research output after 2015

Figure 2:

Co-authorship network in international research collaborations on informal labour in the tourism industry

Figure 3:

Represents relationships between core journals frequently cited together in studies on unregistered labour in the tourism industry

Figure 4:

Most frequently used terms in the literature on migrant and unregistered workers in the tourism industry

Figure 5:

Geographic distribution of research output on informal labour in the tourism industry

Figure 6:

How frequently key authors are cited together, mapping the intellectual structure of the field

Most cited authors during the period 2000 to 2023

Most Cited Authors
Author(s)Total
Manalansan, MF363
Lundberg, C; Gudmundson, A; Andersson, TD230
Robinson, RNS; Martins, A; Solnet, D; Baum, T162
Sparke, M; Sidaway, JD; Bunnell, T; Grundy-Warr, C130
Janta, H; Ladkin, A; Brown, L; Lugosi, P119
Janta, H; Brown, L; Lugosi, P; Ladkin, A98
Baum, T95
Joppe, M86
Janta, H; Lugosi, P; Brown, L; Ladkin, A84
Moscardo, G; Konovalov, E; Murphy, L; McGehee, N72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejthr-2025-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2182-4924 | Journal ISSN: 2182-4916
Language: English
Page range: 341 - 352
Submitted on: Feb 7, 2025
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Accepted on: Nov 19, 2025
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Published on: Dec 31, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2025 Bartola Mavrić, Orhan Akova, published by Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
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