Mapping Research Streams and Future Agenda in Community-Based Tourism Development: A Bibliometric Approach

Abstract

Community based tourism development has become one of the research topics in various parts of the world. Tourism and community are entities that have a strategic impact on the economy. This study intends to examine the literature on tourism and makes an effort to pinpoint the global trends in community-based tourism research. This study uses a mixed review methodology that combines content analysis and the bibliometric technique. The authors gather 719 papers (articles and reviews) related to the topic of community-based tourism from 1991 to 2023 by consulting the Scopus database. The data was analyzed using VOS viewer and R-Studio (biblioshiny). This study classified the intellectual structure into five streams—economics, ecotourism, artificial intelligence, sustainable development, and management—the study identified the key scientific researcher in the community-based tourism. This study also presents future research directions for researchers. The highly structured systematic literature approach can pose some problems, as it is less flexible than other approaches. Another limitation of this approach is the focus on Scopus-indexed scientific journal publications.

Keywords

• community-based tourism
• bibliometric
• sustainability
• community involvement
• community empowerment