CULTURAL TOURISM AND TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY: A MAPPING OF THE SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE OF THE WEB OF SCIENCE

Abstract

Cultural tourism has performed its activities promisingly considering its remarkable growth throughout the vast cultural diversity of the world. Knowing that cultural motivations tend to represent important criteria for choosing a tourist destination, it becomes increasingly important to frame cultural tourism along the lines of sustainability. The general objective of this study is to identify growth trends and analyze the behavior of scientific productivity in the field of cultural tourism sustainability. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a bibliometric study was carried out which allows the measurement and surveying of scientific production indexes on a given topic of interest. To review the literature, the Web of Science database and its core collection were used. The main findings reveal that scientific productions about sustainability and cultural tourism grew in 2015. Spain is in a prominent position among the most productive countries. In the 2015-2019 period, pasos. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural has contributed with the largest number of publications in the area. Finally, seven research topics were identified including: perspectives on tourism, cultural tourism, identity, perception of residents, perception of visitors, cultural tourism and social capital, and attitudes of cultural conservation.