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dc.contributor.authorRuhanen, L
dc.contributor.authorWeiler, B
dc.contributor.authorMoyle, BD
dc.contributor.authorMcLennan, CLJ
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-05T01:50:44Z
dc.date.available2017-06-05T01:50:44Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0966-9582
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09669582.2014.978790
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/129390
dc.description.abstractIn the quarter of a century since the release of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable tourism has emerged as the dominant paradigm in tourism development. However, the debate, discourse, and criticism of this subfield of tourism research continues. To address such concerns the purpose of this paper is to explore trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research over the past 25 years. A 25-year bibliometric analysis was conducted for the four highest ranked journals in the tourism field. Results indicate that the growth in sustainable tourism research has been remarkable, with 492 papers published in these four journals and almost half of these in the last two years of the analysis. The largest proportion of papers published on sustainable tourism was case studies, empirical studies, and critical reviews. This study found that while the theoretical and methodological approaches appear to have matured over time, the subjects and themes in sustainable tourism research, with some exceptions, have remained constant. However, the field is clearly maturing with a move away from definitional and conceptual papers to papers focused on testing and applying theory through empirical research.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom517
dc.relation.ispartofpageto535
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Sustainable Tourism
dc.relation.ispartofvolume23
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350899
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.titleTrends and patterns in sustainable tourism research: a 25-year bibliometric analysis
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sustainable Tourism on 19 Feb 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09669582.2014.978790
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gro.griffith.authorMoyle, Brent D.


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