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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and international travel restrictions: the geopolitics of health and tourism	93
Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice	70
Last chance to see the ice: visitor motivation at Montenvers-Mer-de-Glace, French Alps	33
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism	31
(Post-) pandemic tourism resiliency: Southeast Asian lives and livelihoods in limbo	30
Migration, tourism and social sustainability	28
‘We and our stories’: constructing food experiences in a UNESCO gastronomy city	28
Critical theories in tourism – a systematic literature review	27
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after COVID-19	20
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	18
Ethnic tourism in China: tourism-related (dis)empowerment of Miao villages in Hunan province	18
Memory, homecoming and the politics of diaspora tourism in China	18
How border tripoints offer opportunities for transboundary tourism development	17
Health and local food consumption in cross-cultural tourism mobility: an assemblage approach	16
Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19	15
Social identity positively impacts sustainable behaviors of backpackers	15
Introduction to special issue on island tourism resilience	15
Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation of Woljeong, South Korea	15
Destination attraction clustering: segmenting tourist movement patterns with geotagged information	14
Modelling the effect of weather on tourism: does it vary across seasons?	14
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	14
Social-ecological resilience and community-based tourism in the commonwealth of Dominica	14
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	14
Settler colonialism and the violent geographies of tourism in the California redwoods	14
Strengthening the political economy of tourism: profits, rents and finance	14

Heritage conservation and communities’ sense of deprivation in tourism: the case of the Hani community in Yunnan, China	13
Digital technology, tourism and geographies of inequality	12
Tourism geographies in the ‘Asian Century’	11
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	11
Entrepreneurial networks in creative tourism place-making: Dali village, Wuhan, China	11
Uber and employment in the Global South – not-so-decent work	11
Cultural globalisation and food in urban destination marketing	10
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	10
The social construction of touristification. Residents’ perspectives on mobilities and moorings	10
Discovering spatial patterns of tourist flow with multi-layer transport networks	10
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	8
Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective	8
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	8
Tourists’ construction of diverse identities with natural disaster dark heritage sites	8
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	8
Moving for a good life: tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants	8
Sustainable intelligence and cultural worldview as triggers to preserve heritage tourism resources	8
Spatial representations, heritage and territorial-synecdoche in contemporary tourism	8
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City	7
How do Olympic cities strategically leverage New Urban Tourism? Evidence from Tokyo	7
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	7
Geopolitics of mobile masses: refugee and tourist metaphors in Finnish-Russian bordertown media	6
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	6
Green placemaking on the peripheral prairie following a natural disaster	6
Interpath relations and the triggering of wine-tourism development	6
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions	6
Lifestyle skiing contributes to health and eudaimonic well-being: an emergent Chinese lifestyle mobility‌	6
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	6
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	6
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	6
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out	6
Black travel is not a monolith	6
Tourism valorisation: digitally enhanced tourist value practices and the geographies of inequality	6
The influence of transportation and digital technologies on backcountry tourism and recreation in British Columbia, Canada	6
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	6
Feeling opulent: adding an affective dimension to symbolic consumption of themes	5
Just tourism transitions? Sustainability policy interventions and implications on Boracay, Philippines	5
Afterword: a critical reckoning with the ‘Asian Century’ in the shadow of the anthropocene	5
Intersectional examination of travel well-being and activities of LGB travellers	5
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: actor-network theory, critical proximity and down to earth	5
The ‘awkward’ geopolitics of tourism in China’s ‘Arctic’ village	5
Valuing surfing ecosystems: an environmental economics and natural resources management perspective	5
Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders	5
Mexican women’s emotions to resist gender stereotypes in rural tourism work	5
Sustainability transitions in tourism: on the transformation of a fragmented sector	5
From tents and maps to vans and apps: Exploring camping mobilities	5
Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism: tourism stories from the Chittagong Hill Tracts	5
Tourism geopolitics: roots and branches	5
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: a tourism geographies agenda	5
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	5

A touristic habitation: automobilities of Chinese driving tourists	5
Entangled engagements: a posthumanist and affirmative ethics for tourism geographies	4
National tourism organizations and climate change	4
Dark diaspora tourism: experiences and meanings in liminal spaces	4
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	4
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	4
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	4
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	4
Mechanized nature: the alienation of nature in mountain tourism in China	4
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	4
More thanjedug-jedug: dynamics of discontent with tourist activity in Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta	4
Confronting historical narratives at the Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine, Florida	4
Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development	4
Tourists really do behave responsibly toward the environment in Camiguin Province, Philippines	4
Legitimizing discourses within favela tourism	4
Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19	4
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions	4
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	4
International development and tourism geographies	4
Stakeholder collaboration, a solution to overtourism? A case study on Sagada, the Philippines	3
Exploring queer people of colour’s perceptions of pride in Sydney	3
On being a Black woman ‘Mzungu’ researcher	3
Advancing evolutionary economic geographies of tourism: trigger events, transformative moments and destination path shaping	3
Airbnb as a hotel competitor in touristified cities. Perceptions among upscale hoteliers in Barcelona	3
‘We’re managing a different river now’: a political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed	3
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	3
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	3
On the gender imperative in tourism geographies research	3
The myth of African American under-representation in nature tourism	3
Wildlife tourism maps and the governance of environmental collapse	3
Caring for melting glaciers	3
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics	3
Location and regionalization patterns of hotel chains: evidence from China	3
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	3
Sense of community and well-being in diaspora festivals	3
Can tourism impact studies become more meaningful?	3
What does colour tell about tourist experiences?	3
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	3
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index	3
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	3
Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies	3
Tourism and degrowth	2
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	2
Outer space mobilities and human health	2
Spatial dynamics, dating app tourists, and location-porting in the tourist encounter	2
Visual and aesthetic markers of gentrification: agency of mapping and tourist destinations	2
Geographic Information Systems are critical tools to manage wine tourism regions	2
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	2
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	2
Imagining communities through friction in the World Heritage Site of Luang Prabang, Laos	2
Tourism and the elusive peace amid violent post-conflict geographies in Colombia	2
Tourism and neoliberalism	2
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	2
What health preparations do international students make for their academic sojourn?	2
Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions	2
Tourism and the blue economy	2
Place-making impelled by farm tourism on a tropical island	2
Phygital time geography, or: what about technology in tourists’ space-time behaviour?	2
Digital storytelling and hopeful last chance tourism experiences	2
Toward a critical geopolitics of smart tourism	2
A holistic and pluralistic perspective for justice through tourism: a regenerative approach	2
Tourism earthly attachments in the Anthropocene	2
Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model	2
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	2
Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning	2
Responsible Rural Tourism in Asia	2
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	2
‘Your home—away from home’: Tourist homes and hospitality as resistance	2
Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation	2
Sweet or profitable home? Migrants’ intention to return for tourism employment	2
Utopia or dystopia – deterrents to ecotourism development in Fiji	2
‘We are the roots!’ Decolonial practices of local tourism	2