OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	86
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	75
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	50
Tourism and the blue economy	45
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	39
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	39
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	36
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	35
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	33
Rethinking placemaking through rural tourism in Chengkan Village, China	33
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	29
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	29
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	28
Domestic rebordering and tourism space: provincial mergers, identity, and mobility in Vietnam	28
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	27
Steering change: universities and adaptive rural tourism in Azheke, China	26
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	26
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	22
Lines of memory. RELICT borders as footprints for tourism	22
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves	22
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	22
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	21
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	21
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	20
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	20

Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	19
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve	19
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	19
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	18
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	18
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	18
Socio-technical analysis and environmental justice as approaches to promoting a sustainable tourism model in biosphere reserves	17
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	17
Tinder and tourist intimacy : women’s digital encounters with tourists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	17
Heritage and landscape narratives: how rural stereotypes are shaping UNESCO biosphere reserves	17
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	17
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	17
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	17
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	16
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	16
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	16
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	16
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	15
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	15
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	15
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	15
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	15
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	15
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	15
Digital nomadism: transforming places, contesting spaces	15
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	14
How Instagram shapes visitors’ relation to wild places	14
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	14
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	14
National tourism organizations and climate change	13
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	13
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	13
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	13
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	12
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	12
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	12
Non-place making: Chinese tourists’ production of tourist spaces through social media	12
Justice in tourism geographies	11
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	11
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	11
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	11
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	11
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	11
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	11
‘I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism	11
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	11
Legality of soundscape alterations induced by tourism-related soundmaking in residential locations	11
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	11
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	11
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	10

Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	10
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	10
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	10
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	10
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	9
Reshaping landscapes and human–environment relationships through geotourism	9
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	9
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	9
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	9
Critical localisms and commons governance in occupied surfscapes	9
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	9
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	9
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	9
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	9
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	9