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- Title
Sustainable Tourism in Sensitive Areas: Bibliometric Characterisation and Content Analysis of Specialised Literature.
- Authors
Sánchez-Cañizares, Sandra M.; Castillo-Canalejo, Ana M.; Cabeza-Ramírez, Luis Javier
- Abstract
Thirty years after the emergence of the term “sustainable tourism” and in view of the proliferation of literature on the subject, it seems appropriate to carry out a bibliographical review, based on empirical bibliometric data, in order to find out who the leading research pioneers are for this type of tourism, discover gaps in our understanding, and redefine the concept’s frontiers. This paper focuses specifically on sustainable tourism in <italic>sensitive areas</italic>, in a first attempt to provide understanding of the accumulated knowledge of the sub-theme by looking at research presented by impact publications. A total of 985 papers published on this topic on Web of Science were selected to this end, and after applying the H-Classics methodology, a content analysis of the forty papers with the greatest impact was carried out. This has led to the discovery of research trends, gaps in the analysis of polar and mountainous areas, and a lack of a core group of highly productive researchers in this area.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABLE tourism; ENVIRONMENTALLY sensitive areas; BIBLIOMETRICS
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2018, Vol 10, Issue 5, p1525
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su10051525