A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW ON URBAN TOURISM

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the bibliometric studies of 483 studies conducted between 2000-2019 within the scope of urban tourism and to determine the changes that occurred in the literature in 20 years. For this purpose, “urban tourism” was chosen as the subject in the WoS database and scanning was done. Among the findings of the study, a large part of the studies were conducted between 2010-2019, among the types of publications, articles are the most published; It is stated that English is the main language of publication and the number of citations received is between 2015-2019.

Keywords

• Urban tourism
• Bibliometric Analysis
• Social Network Analysis
• Citespace

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