OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	114
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	103
Domestic rebordering and tourism space: provincial mergers, identity, and mobility in Vietnam	69
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	48
Rethinking placemaking through rural tourism in Chengkan Village, China	45
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	44
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	44
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	42
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	41
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	41
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	39
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	38
Tourism and the blue economy	37
After dark at Bran Castle: nighttime tourism as a value-added experience	35
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	32
Lines of memory. RELICT borders as footprints for tourism	31
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	28
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	27
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	26
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	26
Steering change: universities and adaptive rural tourism in Azheke, China	25
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves	25
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	25
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	25
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	23

Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	22
Tinder and tourist intimacy : women’s digital encounters with tourists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	22
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	22
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	21
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	21
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	21
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve	21
Socio-technical analysis and environmental justice as approaches to promoting a sustainable tourism model in biosphere reserves	21
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	20
Heritage and landscape narratives: how rural stereotypes are shaping UNESCO biosphere reserves	19
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	19
The historical place-making of East Belgium through borderlands tourism	19
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	19
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	18
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	18
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	18
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	18
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	18
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	18
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	18
National tourism organizations and climate change	17
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	17
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	17
How Instagram shapes visitors’ relation to wild places	17
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	17
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	16
Digital nomadism: transforming places, contesting spaces	16
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	15
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	15
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	15
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	15
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	15
Justice in tourism geographies	14
Non-place making: Chinese tourists’ production of tourist spaces through social media	14
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	14
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	13
Legality of soundscape alterations induced by tourism-related soundmaking in residential locations	13
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	13
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	13
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	12
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	12
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	12
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	12
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	12
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	12
‘I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism	12
Transforming water overflow into sustainable tourism: Community resilience in Ayutthaya’s Sena trough	12
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	11
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	11
Where conflicts emerge: spatializing resident–tourist value tensions in Macau street vendor governance	11

Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	11
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	11
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	11
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	11
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	11
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	11
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	10
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	10
Temporal clashes in the Anthropocene: time and decline in Arctic tourism	10
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	10
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	10
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	10
Correction	10