A Sustainable Tourism Policy Research Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1. Systematic Review
- Define research questions and choose analysis methods.
- Search for relevant data from studies that match certain criteria.
- Extract and evaluate relevant data.
- Use statistical methods to analyze and combine data to provide a general analysis of all data.
- Clarifying the purpose of this study, which is to review research progress on sustainable tourism policy research using a systematic review as the main research method.
- Collecting literature on sustainable tourism policy research.
- Extracting and evaluating the collected literature.
- Using a complex network theory to build a literature co-citation network and determine the subjects and direction of sustainable tourism policy research.
2.2. Literature Co-Citation Network Analysis
2.3. Data Collection
2.4. Data Analyses
2.4.1. Case Distribution
2.4.2. Methods
2.4.3. Scales
3. Results
3.1. The Co-Citation Network
3.2. Themes
3.2.1. Sustainable Concept in Tourism Policy
3.2.2. Sustainable Tourism Policy Implementation
3.2.3. Sustainable Tourism Policy Stakeholders
3.2.4. Sustainable Tourism and Climate Policy
3.2.5. Sustainable Tourism Indicators and Planning
3.2.6. The Role of Sustainable Tourism Policy
4. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Database | Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)—1999–present Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—2002–present Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)—2002–present |
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Key Words | sustainable tourism policy |
Search Condition | Topic |
Year | 1986-present |
Research Areas | All |
Result | 515 |
Source Journals | Records | Percentage |
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JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM | 75 | 14.56% |
SUSTAINABILITY | 45 | 8.74% |
CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM | 22 | 4.27% |
TOURISM MANAGEMENT | 19 | 3.69% |
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION | 16 | 3.11% |
TOURISM MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES | 14 | 2.72% |
OCEAN AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT | 11 | 2.14% |
ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH | 10 | 1.94% |
TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES | 10 | 1.94% |
JOURNAL OF DESTINATION MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT | 9 | 1.75% |
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS | 8 | 1.55% |
JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH | 8 | 1.55% |
LAND USE POLICY | 8 | 1.55% |
MARINE POLICY | 8 | 1.55% |
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS | 7 | 1.36% |
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL | 7 | 1.36% |
JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH | 7 | 1.36% |
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY | 6 | 1.17% |
Continent | Number | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Europe | 20 | 40.82% |
Asia | 12 | 24.49% |
Oceania | 6 | 12.24% |
North America | 5 | 10.20% |
Africa | 2 | 4.08% |
South America | 1 | 2.04% |
global | 2 | 4.08% |
No case | 7 | 14.29% |
Study Scale | Number | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
Macro Scale | Global | 2 | 4.08% |
International Area | 1 | 2.04% | |
Country | 23 | 46.94% | |
Mesoscale Scale | Domestic Area | 9 | 18.37% |
City | 7 | 14.29% | |
Microscopic Scale | Scenic Area | 3 | 6.12% |
Other Scales | No Clear Scale | 6 | 12.24% |
Community Number | Number of Articles | Themes | Key Articles |
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1 | 20 | Sustainable tourism policy stakeholders | Simao and Partidario 2012 [20], Solstrand 2013 [21] |
2 | 21 | Sustainable tourism policy implementation | Bramwell 2011 [22], Stumpf and Swanger 2015 [23] |
3 | 29 | Sustainable tourism and climate policy | Gossling et al. 2012 [24], Moyle et al. 2014 [25] |
4 | 19 | Sustainable tourism indicators and planning | Fernandez-Tabales et al. 2017 [26], Tanguay, Rajaonson and Therrien 2013 [27], Castellani and Sala 2010 [3] |
5 | 31 | Sustainable concepts in tourism policy | Saarinen 2014, 2006 [28,29], Fodness 2017 [30], Vellecco and Mancino 2010 [31] |
6 | 8 | The role of sustainable tourism policy | Butler 1999 [32], Xu and Sofield 2016 [33] |
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Guo, Y.; Jiang, J.; Li, S. A Sustainable Tourism Policy Research Review. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3187. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113187
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Chicago/Turabian StyleGuo, Yi, Jinbo Jiang, and Shengchao Li. 2019. "A Sustainable Tourism Policy Research Review" Sustainability 11, no. 11: 3187. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11113187