Research Trends in Tourism Participation: A Bibliometric Analysis Using the Scopus Database

Abstract

The study of tourism participation has been widely applied in the tourism sector. This tourism participation connects cultural villages with community-based tourism. In this paper, we present a bibliometric analysis of the tourism participation model. The novelty of our work is that unlike our previous work that using the Google Scholar database, this work has imported data from the Scopus database. The purpose of this study is to identify the evolution of tourism Participation researches, such as: source, document type, journal name, publisher name, topic trends, and author collaborations. Bibliometric analysis was used to analyze 1913 articles published from 2018 to 2023. Tourism participation is the main keyword used in article titles, abstracts, and keywords to obtain metadata retrieved from the Scopus database in March 2023, where most articles are written in English. We use Harzing’s Publish or Perish to extract data from Scopus databases and further used for citation and metric analysis, finally VoS Viewer is employed for data visualization. Based on the network visualization, the most dominant terms are tourism, tourism development, sustainable tourism, local participation. When viewed from the overlay visualization more keywords are appeared i.e., community empowerment, sustainable tourism development, and destination management. Based on the findings displayed in network visualization and overlay visualization, it can be concluded that articles with the topic of tourism participation have been widely studied, so it can be further explored for research.