Companies in tourism and hospitality research, 2023–2025
Companies whose researchers publish in the 10 tracked tourism and hospitality journals, ranked by their papers in each year from 2023 to 2025, and how much of the research has corporate authors. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education. Also as Markdown.
By category: Finance · Accounting · Economics · Health Economics and Policy · Management · Marketing · Information Systems · Tourism and Hospitality · Higher Education and Research · Operations Research · Statistics · AI
Key findings#
- Of the 3,569 papers the 10 tracked tourism and hospitality journals published in 2023–2025, 11 (0%) have at least one author at a company; 91% of those also have a university author.
- The corporate share of tourism and hospitality papers went from 0% in 2017 to 1% in 2025.
- Alibaba Group (China) took part in the most papers (2), followed by IBM (India) (2) and Airbnb (United States) (1).
Companies#
| # | Company | Country | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alibaba Group (China) | China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | IBM (India) | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Airbnb (United States) | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | China Mobile (China) | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | EURECAT Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Google (United States) | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Huawei Technologies (China) | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Samsung (South Korea) | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Telefonica Research and Development | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Telefónica (Spain) | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By year#
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Companies in tourism and hospitality research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/tourism-and-hospitality
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title = {Companies in tourism and hospitality research, 2023–2025},
year = {2026},
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