OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Tourism Geographies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourism and the blue economy	109
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	37
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	36
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	34
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	33
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	33
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	32
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	30
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	28
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	27
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	27
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	23
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	20
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	19
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	18
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	17
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	16
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	16
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	14
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	14
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	14
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	14
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	13
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	13
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	13

Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	12
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	12
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	12
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	12
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	11
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	11
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	11
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	11
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	11
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	10
Uber and employment in the Global South – not-so-decent work	10
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	10
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	10
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	10
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	10
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	10
Asian tourism through a multifaceted lens. Current Issues in Asian Tourism	10
National tourism organizations and climate change	10
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	9
Lifestyle skiing contributes to health and eudaimonic well-being: an emergent Chinese lifestyle mobility‌	8
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	8
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	8
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	8
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	7
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	7
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	7
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	7
International Tourism Futures: The Drivers and Impact of Change	7
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	7
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	7
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	7
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	7
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	7
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	7
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	7
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	7
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	7
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	7
Tourism paradoxes: Contradictions, controversies and challenges	7
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	6
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	6
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	6
Correction	6
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	6
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	6
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	6
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	6
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	6
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	6
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	6

From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	6
Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis	5
From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide	5
Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19	5
Critical theories in tourism – a systematic literature review	5
Sustainable intelligence and cultural worldview as triggers to preserve heritage tourism resources	5
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions	5
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index	5
Social innovations in tourism: Analysing processes, actors, and tipping points	5
Regenerative tourism as a post-disaster response: lessons from Cammino nelle Terre Mutate	5
Polar tourism and the changing geographies of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions	5
Tourism and degrowth	5
Book Review of Religious tourism in Northern Thailand: encounters with Buddhist Monks	5
A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progress and future agenda	5
Assembling tigers, dragons and hells: relational materialist geographies of curated themed spaces	4
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	4
Future past of tourism: critical reflection’s on the rise of tourism futures	4
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism	4
Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation	4
Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning	4
The tourism periphery: from structural hierarchies of place to relational ontology	4
“We have a shared history”: roots travel to Indonesia across Indo-European generations	4
The tourist pose: aesthetic labour, social media, and new gendered tourism geographies	4
Tourism and the elusive peace amid violent post-conflict geographies in Colombia	4
Digital storytelling and hopeful last chance tourism experiences	4
Narcotourism: a conceptual framework and research agenda	4
Tourism ethnography and tourism geographies	4
Utopia or dystopia – deterrents to ecotourism development in Fiji	4
Tourism infrastructures	4
Black travel is not a monolith	4
Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas	3
The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology	3
Place production, urban tourism geographies and experiences of Muße	3
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after COVID-19	3
Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development	3
The state-of-the-art in sport tourism geographies	3
Travels with Nelson	3
‘We’re managing a different river now’: a political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed	3
Correction	3
Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions	3
Moving for a good life: tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants	3
Appraising the community in community-based tourism	3
A touristic habitation: automobilities of Chinese driving tourists	3
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape	3
International development and tourism geographies	3
The influence of transportation and digital technologies on backcountry tourism and recreation in British Columbia, Canada	3
Airbnb as a hotel competitor in touristified cities. Perceptions among upscale hoteliers in Barcelona	3
‘We are the roots!’ Decolonial practices of local tourism	2
Exploring queer people of colour’s perceptions of pride in Sydney	2
Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback	2
‘Still hungry, not enough’: the past, present, and future of food tourism scholarship	2
Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model	2
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development	2
The myth of African American under-representation in nature tourism	2
Destination attraction clustering: segmenting tourist movement patterns with geotagged information	2
Mechanized nature: the alienation of nature in mountain tourism in China	2
Dark diaspora tourism: experiences and meanings in liminal spaces	2
The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage	2
Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders	2
Backpacker tourism: definitions, methods, debates	2
Religious tourism	2
A tribute to Nelson Graburn: the joy of tourism research	2
Popular culture and tourism: conceptual advances and future directions	2
Tourism geopolitics: routes and worldings	2
Integrating second home owners into conservative rural communities in a developing country	2