Mapping the Changing Landscape of Risk and Crisis Research in Tourism Management: A Longitudinal Bibliometric Analysis

Azizi, Fatemeh; Shekari, Fatemeh; Ghaderi, Zahed

doi:10.22054/tms.2026.95016.3245

Mapping the Changing Landscape of Risk and Crisis Research in Tourism Management: A Longitudinal Bibliometric Analysis

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Fatemeh Azizi ¹

Fatemeh Shekari ²

Zahed Ghaderi ³

¹ Department of Management Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

² Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, School of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

³ Department of Tourism,, College of Arts and Social Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

https://doi.org/10.22054/tms.2026.95016.3245

Abstract

Research on risk and crisis in tourism management covers a wide range of disruptions, yet little is known about how its thematic structure has changed over time. This study examines 4,830 Scopus-indexed journal articles and reviews published between 1987 and 2026 using longitudinal science mapping in SciMAT. The findings suggest a broadening from disaster and crisis management toward risk assessment, vulnerability, preparedness, and resilience. Research temporarily concentrated around COVID-19 during 2020–2022, while the most recent period shows a more diversified, destination-centered configuration. Across the study period, established themes persisted and became connected with newer areas of research rather than being replaced. By tracing changes in thematic relationships and structural roles across successive periods, the study extends previous reviews that mainly identified major topics and crisis types and provides a longitudinal account of the conceptual development of risk and crisis research in tourism management.

Keywords

Tourism risk

tourism crises

resilience

bibliometric analysis

thematic evolution

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