Knowledge Mapping of Tourism Emergency Research: A Scientometric Review

Abstract

All kinds of crises have brought great challenges to the survival and development of tourism. In view of the variety of crisis and the limitation of ex ante control effect, tourism emergency have substantially affected the decision-making behaviors of tourists. The academia worldwide has investigated tourism emergency from divergent perspectives to aid the tourism industry in improving its efficiency in tourism crisis management. This study utilizes the increasingly popular approach in scientometrics to analyze emergency research in tourism, thereby systematically and comprehensively presenting these studies as a whole. A total of 824 articles between 2001 and 2022 were collected. Subsequently, comprehensive knowledge maps of tourism emergency research, were identified using co-occurrence network and burst detection with research among institutions, authors, country, hotspots, based on institution-author networks, and identified tourism emergency discipline as well as contemporary research topics and most influential researchers.