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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A touristic habitation: automobilities of Chinese driving tourists	82
Ethnic tourism in China: tourism-related (dis)empowerment of Miao villages in Hunan province	33
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	31
Introduction to special issue on island tourism resilience	30
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	28
Tourism, space, and place: bridging past, present and future research	28
Social mobility goes on holiday: rethinking space and communities through tourism mobilities	20
Sense of community and well-being in diaspora festivals	19
Policing freedom campers: the place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand	18
Traveling to escape, resist, and belong: centering black experiences within tourism scholarship	18
Tourism and brexit: Travel, borders and identity (series: Tourism and cultural change: 56)	17
Tourism and development in Southeast Asia	16
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	15
International Tourism Futures: The Drivers and Impact of Change	15
Appraising the community in community-based tourism	14
Tourism-generated energy use characteristics and sustainability transitions	14
Material matters: understanding ‘local food’ through a material-semiotic approach	14
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	14
Visual and aesthetic markers of gentrification: agency of mapping and tourist destinations	14
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	13
Indigenous Peoples’ rights and tourism: thinking about colonisation	12
Sustainability transitions in tourism: on the transformation of a fragmented sector	12
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	11
Stakeholder collaboration, a solution to overtourism? A case study on Sagada, the Philippines	11
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out	11

Tourism and the blue economy	10
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	10
Spatial justice and street accessibility for wheelchair users in Macao	8
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	8
‘We and our stories’: constructing food experiences in a UNESCO gastronomy city	8
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: actor-network theory, critical proximity and down to earth	8
Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19	8
How do Olympic cities strategically leverage New Urban Tourism? Evidence from Tokyo	8
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	8
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	7
The tourism periphery: from structural hierarchies of place to relational ontology	7
In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith	7
Spatial dynamics, dating app tourists, and location-porting in the tourist encounter	7
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	6
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape	6
Narcotourism: a conceptual framework and research agenda	6
Regenerative tourism development as a response to crisis: harnessing practise-led approaches	6
Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies	6
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	6
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	6
Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice	6
Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning	6
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	6
Moving for a good life: tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants	6
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	6
Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas	6
‘We’re managing a different river now’: a political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed	5
Avoiding the (tourist) gaze: pursuit of the ‘authentic’ in the Tbilisi edgelands	5
Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development	5
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	5
Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions	5
Mobilities and health: a relational perspective	5
How border tripoints offer opportunities for transboundary tourism development	5
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	5
Ancestral tourism: at the intersection of roots journeys and genealogy research	5
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	5
Location and regionalization patterns of hotel chains: evidence from China	5
Heritage from above, below or somewhere in-between? A review of ‘After Heritage: Critical perspectives on heritage from below’	5
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	4
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	4
Place production, urban tourism geographies and experiences of Muße	4
Intersectional examination of travel well-being and activities of LGB travellers	4
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	4
Remembering “Hosts and Guests”: a tribute to Valene Smith (1926–2024)	4
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	4
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	4
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics	4
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	4
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions	4

The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology	4
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	4
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	4
Confronting historical narratives at the Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine, Florida	4
Interpath relations and the triggering of wine-tourism development	4
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	4
Strengthening the political economy of tourism: profits, rents and finance	3
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: a tourism geographies agenda	3
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after COVID-19	3
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	3
Dark diaspora tourism: experiences and meanings in liminal spaces	3
Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback	3
What health preparations do international students make for their academic sojourn?	3
Rethinking rurality in rural tourism: a new materialist approach	3
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	3
International development and tourism geographies	3
Digital technology, tourism and geographies of inequality	3
The role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development in tourism	3
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	3
The influence of transportation and digital technologies on backcountry tourism and recreation in British Columbia, Canada	3
Why travel?: life explorations and ‘Tourism Geographies’ in a world of travel	3
Correction	3
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	3
Gaze and reflexivity in postcolonial cinema: the pragmatic turn in critical tourism studies	3
Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation of Woljeong, South Korea	3
Caring for melting glaciers	2
Indexing Valene Smith’s contributions to the Anthropology of tourism and tourism studies	2
The state-of-the-art in sport tourism geographies	2
Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Enabling home and destinations for the well-being of seasonal retired tourists	2
Airbnb as a hotel competitor in touristified cities. Perceptions among upscale hoteliers in Barcelona	2
Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the COVID-19 pandemic	2
NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia	2
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	2
Advancing evolutionary economic geographies of tourism: trigger events, transformative moments and destination path shaping	2
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index	2
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	2
Tourism and degrowth	2
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	2
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions	2
Experiencing therapeutic soundscapes in rural tourism destinations	2
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	2
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	2
Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites	2
Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19	2
From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide	2
Spatial representations, heritage and territorial-synecdoche in contemporary tourism	2
Popular culture and tourism: conceptual advances and future directions	2
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City	2
Green placemaking on the peripheral prairie following a natural disaster	2
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	2
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	2
Social-ecological resilience and community-based tourism in the commonwealth of Dominica	2
Correction	2
Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders	2