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title: "Tourism research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Papers on “tourism”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/6.md)

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.

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

## 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

*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) | 12 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 39 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 30 | 24 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Quality & Quantity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/quality-quantity.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/letters-in-spatial-and-resource-sciences.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [University of Johannesburg](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-johannesburg.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Griffith University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/griffith-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [University of Surrey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey.md) | 6 |
| 6 | University of South Carolina | 5 |
| 7 | [Kyung Hee University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/kyung-hee-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | Northumbria University | 4 |
| 9 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | hospitality | 22 |
| 2 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [hospitality industry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hospitality-industry.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [customer experience](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/customer-experience.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [metaverse](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaverse.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [research trends](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/research-trends.md) | 8 |

## 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 | 664 | 7.9 | [20 years of research on virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism context: A text-mining approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104028) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-11-08 | Sandra María Correia Loureiro, João Guerreiro, Faizan Ali |
| 3 | 612 | 7.4 | [Leveraging human-robot interaction in hospitality services: Incorporating the role of perceived value, empathy, and information sharing into visitors’ intentions to use social robots](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.104042) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-11-29 | Ronan de Kervenoael, Rajibul Hasan, Alexandre Schwob et al. |
| 4 | 597 | 5.3 | [Tourism and wellbeing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.006) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2017-06-08 | Melanie Smith, Anya Diekmann |
| 5 | 426 | 5.4 | [A systematic literature review of the theory of planned behavior in tourism, leisure and hospitality management research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.04.003) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2020-04-27 | Elif Ülker-Demirel, Gülsel Çiftçi |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Overtourism and the housing of residents](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/overtourism-and-housing.md)

## 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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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).