TY - CHAP
T1 - e-Tourism Research
T2 - A Review
AU - Yuan, Yulan
AU - Tseng, Yuen-Hsien
AU - Li, Ching
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - The growing importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in tourism is widely acknowledged, resulting in a growing body of research on e-Tourism. This chapter presents a comprehensive review of the status of e-Tourism research and its topics based on 752 articles collected from 14 tourism and hospitality journals, which are indexed in theWeb of Science (WoS) database. Publication trends regarding e-Tourism, contributing countries/territories, and changes in knowledge basis of scientific disciplines are presented as an overview of e-Tourism research. This is followed by a clustering approach based on bibliographic coupling (BC) similarity between each article to reveal salient topics (and subtopics) as well as their relatedness. Interpretations based on quantitative results and qualitative insights are provided. Complemented with domain knowledge and literature evidence, insights are presented to show possible future research directions, which would benefit both novice and experienced researchers and those who are considering e-Tourism as a research focus.
AB - The growing importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in tourism is widely acknowledged, resulting in a growing body of research on e-Tourism. This chapter presents a comprehensive review of the status of e-Tourism research and its topics based on 752 articles collected from 14 tourism and hospitality journals, which are indexed in theWeb of Science (WoS) database. Publication trends regarding e-Tourism, contributing countries/territories, and changes in knowledge basis of scientific disciplines are presented as an overview of e-Tourism research. This is followed by a clustering approach based on bibliographic coupling (BC) similarity between each article to reveal salient topics (and subtopics) as well as their relatedness. Interpretations based on quantitative results and qualitative insights are provided. Complemented with domain knowledge and literature evidence, insights are presented to show possible future research directions, which would benefit both novice and experienced researchers and those who are considering e-Tourism as a research focus.
KW - Bibliometric approach
KW - Content analysis
KW - e-Tourism research topics
KW - Research trend
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-48652-5_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-48652-5_12
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85153661230
SN - 9783030486518
SP - 75
EP - 93
BT - Handbook of e-Tourism
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -