Recent progress of tourism research based on a glocalization perspective

Abstract

In recent years, trade protectionism, anti-globalization ideology, and the global public health crisis have exacerbated the challenges of globalization. In this process, tourism development has been greatly impacted and undergone major changes, which faces strong needs for reconstruction and transformation and requires us to re-examine the opportunities and challenges. Therefore, based on the macro-meso-micro scale analyses, this study systematically reviewed and summarized the relevant topics of tourism research in recent years from the perspective of glocalization using the bibliographic analysis method. First, with the increasingly frequent global crises in recent years, scholars have focused on the most pressing practical issues, examined the interaction between climate change and global-local tourism development, the interaction between the COVID-19 pandemic and global-local tourism development, and the glocalization strategy of tourism response to the crises. It is also an important research topic to analyze the dialectical relationship between the Belt and Road initiative and tourism, the development of inbound tourism and outbound tourism in countries and regions along the routes, and the paths of international tourism cooperation between countries and regions along the routes. Second, there exist significant differences in the development factors, development processes, development models, and mechanisms of glocalized tourism in different regions. Urban tourism, rural tourism, nature reserve tourism, and heritage site tourism are the main types of regional tourism in the study of tourism research from the perspective of glocalization. Third, attention has been paid to the research of glocalization and tourism at the micro scale of local governments, residents, tourism enterprises, and tourists. Based on the above, we discussed the tourism research direction from the perspective of glocalization: continue to build theoretical systems of tourism research from the perspective of glocalization, broaden and deepen tourism research at different scales and the correlation between scales from the perspective of glocalization, and use the comprehensive and integrated method from qualitative to quantitative to provide a theoretical reference and practical basis for tourism research with the glocalization perspective.