Papers on “hospitality industry”
Research on “hospitality industry” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hospitality industry” appeared in 938 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (762), management (80) and marketing (26).
- 127 of them were published in 2025, against 37 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Florida State University (18), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (18) and Kyung Hee University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Hospitality Management (227), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (53) and Tourism Management (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Developing and validating a service robot integration willingness scale” (International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2019), with 1,009 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism and Hospitality | 29 | 61 | 65 | 85 | 85 | 84 | 64 | 99 | 105 | 85 |
| Management | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 12 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Finance | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Economics | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 37 | 71 | 74 | 95 | 117 | 108 | 85 | 120 | 127 | 104 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 227 |
| 2 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 53 |
| 3 | Tourism Management | 29 |
| 4 | Tourism Management Perspectives | 19 |
| 5 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 9 |
| 6 | Information Technology & Tourism | 7 |
| 7 | Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management | 7 |
| 8 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 6 |
| 9 | Annals of Tourism Research | 6 |
| 10 | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge | 6 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida State University | 18 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 18 |
| 3 | Kyung Hee University | 15 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania State University | 15 |
| 5 | City University of Macau | 14 |
| 6 | University of Houston | 13 |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University | 12 |
| 8 | University of Johannesburg | 12 |
| 9 | Xiamen University | 12 |
| 10 | Virginia Tech | 11 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 114 |
| 2 | United States | 111 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 52 |
| 4 | South Korea | 35 |
| 5 | Australia | 34 |
| 6 | Macao | 33 |
| 7 | India | 30 |
| 8 | Spain | 27 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 21 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hotel employees | 63 |
| 2 | tourism industry | 51 |
| 3 | moderating effect | 30 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 29 |
| 5 | service robots | 27 |
| 6 | hotels | 20 |
| 7 | customer satisfaction | 19 |
| 8 | conservation of resources theory | 18 |
| 9 | artificial intelligence adoption | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “hospitality industry”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hospitality-industry
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