Bibliometric study of creative tourism, tendencies and future lines of research

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https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2021.979

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Bibliometric study, Creative tourism, Scopus

Abstract

Objetive. The objective of this article is to analyze the scientific production on creative tourism indexed in the Scopus database and to identify gaps, trends and future lines of research.

Method. The bibliometric method was used to map the state of the art and identify trends, gaps and future lines of research. A search was made in the Scopus database for scientific articles that included the terms creative tourism in the title, abstract or keywords. Bibexcel software was used to calculate productivity indicators and h-index. The VOSviewer software allowed the analysis of bibilometric networks of citation, co-citation and co-occurrence of keywords.

Results. A total of 120 articles corresponding to the period 2002-2020 were found. The scientific production on creative tourism is growing and presents a high rate of topicality. Greg Richards was the most prolix author with the highest h-index, which confirms him as a reference in the subject. The most productive journals are Current Issues in Tourism and Annals of Tourism Research. Creative tourism has been studied from three fundamental thematic lines: tourism and creativity, creative experience and creative space.

Conclusions. The implications of the results of the study for academics, researchers and tourism managers were presented. Studies on the profile of the creative tourist, the role of new technologies, co-creation of experiences, as well as the inclusion of variables such as repetition intention, image, motivation and the role of the community in creative tourism were proposed as research opportunities.

Author Biographies

Beatriz Serrano-Leyva, Universidad de Holguín

Licenciado en Turismo, profesor instructor de la carrera Licenciatura en Turismo de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Actualmente cursa el programa de doctorado Gestión Organizacional en la línea Gestión Turística de la Universidad de Holguín. Cuenta con varias publicaciones en revistas científicas internacionales.

Félix Díaz-Pompa, Universidad de Holguín

Profesor Titular de la carrera Licenciatura en Turismo, Doctor en Ciencias y Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Holguín, Cuba. Es miembro del claustro de la maestría en Gestión Turística y del Doctorado em Gestión Organizacional en la línea de Gestión Turística. Es coordinador del programa territorial Turismo inteligente y sostenible de la provincia Holguín, además de participar como investigador en varios proyectos de investigación. El investigador cuenta con varias publicaciones en revistas científicas internacionales, además contribuye como revisor en varias de estas revistas.

Francisco Fidel Feria-Velázquez, Universidad de Holguín

Profesor Titular, Doctor en Ciencias y Jefe de la Carrera Licenciatura en Turismo de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Coordinador de la línea Gestión Turística del programa de doctorado Gestión Organizacional y profesor de la maestria en Gestión Turística de la Universidad de Holguín, Cuba. Investigador que cuenta con varias publicaciones en revistas científicas internacionales, además contribuye con su experticia como revisor en varias de estas revistas. Ha coordinado y participado en varios proyectos de investigación.

Greg Richards, Breda University of Applied Sciences

Doctor ee ciencias y professor de Placemaking y eventos de la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Breda y Profesor de estudios de ocio en la Universidad de Tilburg. Ha trabajado em diversos proyectos para diferentes gobiernos, organizaciones nacionales del Turismo y de municipios. Cuenta com uma amplia experiência em investigación y educación turística. Sus interesses de investigación se centran em el turismo creativo, cultural, imagen de destino, entre otros.

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Serrano-Leyva, B., Díaz-Pompa, F., Feria-Velázquez, F. F., & Richards, G. (2022). Bibliometric study of creative tourism, tendencies and future lines of research. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (82), 64–86. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2021.979

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