Papers on “tourism”
Research on “tourism” 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 “tourism” appeared in 444 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (219), economics (98) and management (46).
- 60 of them were published in 2025, against 26 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8), University of Johannesburg (8) and Griffith University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Tourism Research (22), Tourism Management (16) and International Journal of Hospitality Management (15).
- 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 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 39 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 30 | 24 |
| Economics | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
| Management | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Finance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 26 | 29 | 35 | 43 | 59 | 49 | 52 | 40 | 60 | 51 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annals of Tourism Research | 22 |
| 2 | Tourism Management | 16 |
| 3 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 15 |
| 4 | Information Technology & Tourism | 15 |
| 5 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 13 |
| 6 | Quality & Quantity | 9 |
| 7 | Resources Policy | 8 |
| 8 | Tourism Management Perspectives | 7 |
| 9 | Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences | 5 |
| 10 | Research in Transportation Business & Management | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 2 | University of Johannesburg | 8 |
| 3 | Griffith University | 7 |
| 4 | University of Macau | 6 |
| 5 | University of Surrey | 6 |
| 6 | University of South Carolina | 5 |
| 7 | Kyung Hee University | 4 |
| 8 | Northumbria University | 4 |
| 9 | Shandong University | 4 |
| 10 | Sun Yat-sen University | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 44 |
| 2 | United States | 37 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 25 |
| 4 | Spain | 24 |
| 5 | Australia | 23 |
| 6 | Italy | 20 |
| 7 | India | 13 |
| 8 | Macao | 12 |
| 9 | Turkey | 12 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hospitality | 22 |
| 2 | economic growth | 19 |
| 3 | hospitality industry | 15 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 14 |
| 5 | customer experience | 13 |
| 6 | CO2 emissions | 8 |
| 7 | digital transformation | 8 |
| 8 | metaverse | 8 |
| 9 | research trends | 8 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “tourism”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/tourism
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