Open AccessOvertourism and tourismphobia
Author(s) -
Medéia Veríssimo,
Michelle Lins de Moraes,
Zélia Breda,
Alan Aparecido Guizi,
Carlos Costa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tourism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1849-1545
pISSN - 1332-7461
DOI - 10.37741/t.68.2.4
Subject(s) - scopus , tourism , citation , content analysis , web of science , destinations , regional science , citation analysis , qualitative analysis , political science , qualitative research , data science , geography , sociology , computer science , social science , library science , medline , law
This paper aims at examining how overtourism and tourismphobia are being approached as emergent research topics in current tourism literature. It conducts an analysis of 154 documents, indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection and Scopus databases. The study follows a quantitative and qualitative approach, with the support of VOSviewer and HistCite softwares for a descriptive content analysis. The analysis focuses on highlighting important aspects in terms of the most frequent publication sources (authors and journals); co-citation, as well as dimensions and research streams; methodologies used; results obtained; and implications for future research. The literature review unveiled that the concepts of overtourism and tourismphobia are usually related to destinations’ development, negativeimpacts, and tourism policies and regulation. Results show that, althoughtourism excesses and conflicts have been studied for long, ‘overtourism’ and‘tourismphobia’ have become usual terms, mainly within the past three years.Even though the adoption of the terms can be considered by some as a ‘trend’, thein-depth analysis of the topics shed light on how ‘old’ concepts can evolve toadapt to contemporary tourism issues. Further studies are needed in tracking theevolution of these topics and their implications on the future of tourism.