Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Social media plays an important role in many aspects of tourism, especially in information retrieval, decision making, tourism promotion, and customer interaction. Due to the growing number of published researches in the field of social media and tourism, the purpose of this research is to analyze the publication trend and conduct a bibliometric analysis of the research published in this field. For this purpose, the information of 1054 articles published in the Web of Science from 2009 to 2020 is analyzed. In this research, two levels of analysis are discussed. At the first level, the publication trend and the impact of authors, journals, and articles are examined. At the second level, the structure of co-occurrence network of keywords and co-authorship network of authors, institutions, and countries are analyzed. The results of this study show that the use of social media in various sectors of tourism has increased in recent years.
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