Bibliometric Mapping of Research on the Relationship between Tourism and Festival (1975-2020) Cover Image

Turizm ve Festival İlişkisine Yönelik Araştırmaların Bibliyometrik Haritalandırılması (1975-2020)
Bibliometric Mapping of Research on the Relationship between Tourism and Festival (1975-2020)

Author(s): Yasemin Akgöl, Gökhan Ayazlar
Subject(s): Economy, Methodology and research technology, Tourism
Published by: Gazi Üniversitesi- Turizm Fakültesi
Keywords: Tourism; Festival; Web of Science; VOSviewer;

Summary/Abstract: Bibliometric research offers a variety of benefits to researchers in order to study the research conducted in the field and understand the direction in which trends are developing. The aim of this study is to create a bibliometric map of the research done on the relationship between Tourism and festivals. To fulfill this aim, documents found on the Web of Science database between the years 1975 and 2020 were scanned. VOSviewer software was utilized to scan the database. As a result of the scanning, 710 studies examining the relationship between tourism and festival were reached. These studies were evaluated according to their publication year,source journal, country, citation, keyword, and author. According to the findings, there is an increasing trend in the number of studies examining the relationship between tourism and festival. The highest number of studies were published by Tourism Management magazine, and the most cited researcher was Melville Saayman. The USA has been found to be the country with the largest number of studies and the most cited studies. Tourism, festivals, events, and satisfaction are the prominent keywords. In addition, the concepts of tourism and festival are examined by addressing keywords, sources, and citations with network graphics created over countries.

  • Issue Year: 5/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 1369-1387
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish, English