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title: "Tourist experience research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “tourist experience” appeared in 293 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (256), management (17) and statistics (5)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “tourist experience” appeared in 293 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (256), management (17) and statistics (5). (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Papers on “tourist experience”

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

Research on “tourist experience” 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 “tourist experience” appeared in 293 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in tourism and hospitality (256), management (17) and statistics (5).
- 24 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (10), Macau University of Science and Technology (8) and University of Macau (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Annals of Tourism Research (26), Tourism Management (22) and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Cultural tourism: An analysis of engagement, cultural contact, memorable tourism experience and destination loyalty” (Tourism Management Perspectives, 2017), with 703 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) | 21 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 32 | 18 | 28 | 35 | 19 | 25 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 23 | 25 | 28 | 31 | 33 | 24 | 33 | 44 | 24 | 28 |

## 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) | 26 |
| 2 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Journal of Destination Marketing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-destination-marketing-management.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Quality & Quantity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/quality-quantity.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Information Technology & Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-technology-tourism.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-outdoor-recreation-and-tourism.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Macau University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macau-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Edith Cowan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/edith-cowan-university.md) | 5 |
| 5 | National Chiayi University | 5 |
| 6 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Griffith University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/griffith-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 4 |
| 9 | University of Lincoln | 4 |
| 10 | [Zhejiang Gongshang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-gongshang-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 53 |
| 2 | Macao | 20 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 4 | United States | 16 |
| 5 | Australia | 13 |
| 6 | Taiwan | 9 |
| 7 | Spain | 7 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 5 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 5 |
| 10 | Italy | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [tourism promotion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/tourism-promotion.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [behavioral intention](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/behavioral-intention.md) | 7 |
| 3 | tourist satisfaction | 7 |
| 4 | authenticity | 6 |
| 5 | co-creation | 6 |
| 6 | heritage tourism | 6 |
| 7 | [social media](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-media.md) | 6 |
| 8 | revisit intention | 5 |
| 9 | [scale development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/scale-development.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 703 | 6.5 | [Cultural tourism: An analysis of engagement, cultural contact, memorable tourism experience and destination loyalty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2017.10.006) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2017-10-31 | Han Chen, Imran Rahman |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 587 | 10.6 | [Immersive technology: A meta-analysis of augmented/virtual reality applications and their impact on tourism experience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104534) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2022-04-01 | Xiaojun Fan, Xinyu Jiang, Nianqi Deng |
| 4 | 549 | 6.0 | [Virtual reality presence as a preamble of tourism experience: The role of mental imagery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.02.009) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-03-06 | Vanja Bogicevic, Soobin Seo, Jay A. Kandampully et al. |
| 5 | 415 | 3.8 | [Creating value from Social Big Data: Implications for Smart Tourism Destinations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2017.10.006) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2017-11-01 | Pasquale Del Vecchio, Gioconda Mele, Valentina Ndou et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “tourist experience”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/tourist-experience

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@misc{scholar4ai-keywords-tourist-experience,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “tourist experience”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/tourist-experience}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

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