Tourism Management Studies

Tourism Clusters and Regional Development: A Co-authorship and Collaboration Network Analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Naser Shafieisabet 1
Faranak feyz babaei cheshmeh sefidi 2

1 Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD student in Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/tms.2024.81969.2980
Abstract
In the subject of tourism, clusters, as a group of businesses and centers related to tourism, seek to increase competitiveness and development through cooperation and interaction. Given more than five decades of studies on tourism clusters and regional development and the lack of a comprehensive review of previous research, the main goal of this research is to conduct a quantitative review of these studies using bibliometric analysis tools. In this regard, articles related to this topic from 1988 to 2024 were reviewed, and knowledge mapping and performance analysis were performed on 333 articles in Vos viewer software. The findings showed that the number of published articles was the highest during the past decade, and authors such as Jackson and Murphy had the highest scientific citations. Also, word co-occurrence analysis revealed five research clusters whose core keywords include tourism, cluster analysis, regional planning, competitiveness, and tourism development.

Keywords

Tourism clusters
regional development
competitive advantage
scientometrics
Subjects
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