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Journey through Data: Exploring Wellness Tourism through Bibliometric Analysis with Dimensions.ai Database

Arun Bhatia, Divyam Sharma, Saurabh Kumar, Umesh Kumar — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Overarching the benefits of tourism a niche kind of tourism motivates people around the world to travel for wellness overcoming level of stress, enhance a sense of joy, harmonised body, mind, and spirit last but not the least gratifying customer experiences boosting an individual well-being has been highlighted as wellness tourism. Wellness Tourism is often erroneously conflated in the literature with medical tourism, despite constituting an entirely distinct segment of health tourism. Furthermore, very few thorough reviews have been done up to the current times to evaluate the after effects of COVID-19 on wellness stream of research and emergence of its prominence in wellness tourism studies. Fulfilling the gap bibliometric analysis technique using dimension.ai is used to evaluate the article authorship, publication trend, co-authorship with synthesis of total article with a total of 1005 pertinent publications written in English-language using mapping technique of VOSviewer programme, relational approaches and evaluation methodologies based on productivity and impact indicators. Proposals and recommendations for future research are highlighted to explore the future dimension of the research in wellness tourism field.

Keywords

Wellness Tourism, Health Tourism, Medical Tourism, Dimensions.ai, Bibliometric Analysis, COVID-19

Attitudes of Local Population about Revitalization of Hunting Tourism in Tito’s Favourite Hunting Area “Karadjordjevo”

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Convenient geographical position, variety of game, hunting tradition and hospitality culture contributed to the development of mass hunting tourism in Serbia in the end of the 20^th century. Hunting activities were considerably developed on the territory of hunting area“ Karadjordjevo“, but the development stopped due to economical and political instability at the beginning of the 21^st century. The aim of this research is to evaluate support of local population in the previously well-known hunting destinations nowadays when hunting tourism are under the pressure of different groups who underestimate their importance. Survey was conducted in the municipality of Backa Palanka in 2018, and the results show that the local population is generally prone to the revitalization of hunting tourism.

Spatial Patterns and Road Network Accessibility of Cultural Heritage for Tourism Potentials in Banswara District, Rajasthan (India)

Viranch N. Dave, Mudit D. Mankad — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

ABSTRACT

Integrating cultural heritage with tourism helps reveal the tangible and intangible characteristics of a place that are the outcome of long-term interactions between the local population and their natural environment. The goal of this study is to investigate cultural heritage in relation to the tourism development in Banswara district, Rajasthan, India. The study first identified and classified the cultural heritage sites of Banswara district; thereafter, it used spatial statistics tools from ArcGIS 10.7 to find out distribution patterns as well as clusters and hotspots of cultural heritage. In addition to this, accessibility to cultural heritage sites is examined using buffer analysis. The results derived show the presence of hotspots and coldspots in the central part of Banswara district, which includes the Talwara Block. Compared to intangible cultural heritage, which is more sporadic, tangible cultural heritage tends to form hotspots and exhibits a more clustered pattern. Also, tangible cultural heritage sites are frequently found close to major highways when compared to intangible cultural heritage. This research can help planners formulate different strategies for incorporating cultural heritage for tourism development, and it can also help in the revitalization of those aspects of culture that face extinction.

Unveiling Progress in Sustainable Tourism Research: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Exploration

Swati Singh, Mansoor Ahmad, Sadaf Siraj — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Purpose: This research aims to evaluate the contribution of studies on sustainable tourism to the existing body of literature in this field.

Design/Methodology/approach: A comprehensive analysis of 1310 literary works was conducted using bibliometric analysis. The study followed the parameters outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) framework, with a primary focus on the Scopus database. The study also emphasizes the importance of accurately identifying authors, references, and links relevant to sustainable tourism research.

Findings: The analysis reveals the progression of research in sustainable tourism and identifies key co-citation clusters within the field. It highlights the absence of bibliometric analysis in this sector and underscores the need for fostering research collaboration between developed and developing nations to facilitate the development of sustainable tourism policies.

Originality: This study provides a comprehensive examination of the literature on sustainable tourism, employing bibliometric analysis to fill the gap in existing research. By identifying key co-citation clusters and emphasizing the importance of research collaboration, this study offers original insights into the field of sustainable tourism.