Mapping of tourism policies research trend: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Tourism policy has become a significant area of interest among researchers in the past few decades. Tourism policies are the future course of action of the national government, which gives momentum to tourism development in the nation. Policies consist of various attributes like policy goals, objectives, strategies, guidelines, and expected outcomes. This study focuses on the trends of research publications on tourism policies. Database form Dimensions is used to extract the bibliographic data using the keyword “Tourism policies” and analysed on VOSviewer. A total of 1836 research articles were analysed were published from 2000 to 2023. The analysis of authors, journals, keywords, research, and academic institutions shows that the literature on tourism policies is significantly growing; only three articles have more than 300 citations, but there are various productive authors on this topic. The analysis also represents the growing trend of tourism policy research globally.