Title: Trends and patterns in Indian sustainable tourism development literature: a bibliometric analysis and visualisation

Authors: Valsaraj Payini; Giridhar B. Kamath; V.P. Vasanth Kamath; Jyothi Mallya

Addresses: Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India, 576104, India ' Department of Humanities and Management, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India ' T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal – 576104, India ' Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India, 576104, India

Abstract: Despite the growing interest in sustainable tourism studies in India, there are not many studies that comprehensively analyse the emerging trends, patterns, and themes in this field. Therefore, this study reviews published papers on sustainable tourism development in the Indian context. This study analyses 32 papers published by Indian researchers in the Scopus database. This study performed performance analyses of the research constituents, coword analysis of keywords, and bibliographic coupling analysis of documents. The analysis brings to light three research streams in Indian sustainable tourism development literature: sustainable tourism development, community-based tourism, and attitude toward sustainable tourism development. Furthermore, this study provides theoretical and methodological recommendations for future research on sustainable tourism development.

Keywords: sustainable tourism development; India; bibliometric analysis; review; sustainable tourism development; community-based tourism; and attitude towards sustainable tourism development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTP.2024.137155

International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2024 Vol.14 No.2, pp.188 - 206

Received: 30 Jan 2023
Accepted: 27 May 2023
Published online: 04 Mar 2024 *

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