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title: "Hospitality industry research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 29 | 61 | 65 | 85 | 85 | 84 | 64 | 99 | 105 | 85 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 12 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 227 |
| 2 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-revenue-and-pricing-management.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Florida State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/florida-state-university.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Pennsylvania State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/pennsylvania-state-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [City University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-macau.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Houston](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-houston.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [University of Johannesburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-johannesburg.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [hotel employees](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hotel-employees.md) | 63 |
| 2 | tourism industry | 51 |
| 3 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 30 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 29 |
| 5 | [service robots](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/service-robots.md) | 27 |
| 6 | hotels | 20 |
| 7 | [customer satisfaction](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/customer-satisfaction.md) | 19 |
| 8 | conservation of resources theory | 18 |
| 9 | [artificial intelligence adoption](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence-adoption.md) | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,009 | 10.8 | [Developing and validating a service robot integration willingness scale](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.01.005) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2019-01-24 | Lu Lu, Ruiying Cai, Doğan Gürsoy |
| 2 | 831 | 8.9 | [Greening the hospitality industry: How do green human resource management practices influence organizational citizenship behavior in hotels? A mixed-methods study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.12.008) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-01-11 | Nhat Tan Pham, Zuzana Tučková, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour |
| 3 | 632 | 8.7 | [Hospitality and tourism industry amid COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives on challenges and learnings from India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102707) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-10-01 | Vikrant Kaushal, Sidharth Srivastava |
| 4 | 571 | 8.0 | [Preference for robot service or human service in hotels? Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102795) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-12-04 | Seongseop Kim, Jungkeun Kim, Frank Badu‐Baiden et al. |
| 5 | 489 | 7.9 | [Top management green commitment and green intellectual capital as enablers of hotel environmental performance: The mediating role of green human resource management](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104431) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2021-09-11 | Kavitha Haldorai, Woo Gon Kim, R.L. Fernando Garcia |

## 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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).