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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	96
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	80
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	53
Tourism and the blue economy	45
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	41
Domestic rebordering and tourism space: provincial mergers, identity, and mobility in Vietnam	40
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	39
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	37
Rethinking placemaking through rural tourism in Chengkan Village, China	35
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	34
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	34
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	30
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	29
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	29
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	29
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	28
Steering change: universities and adaptive rural tourism in Azheke, China	24
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	23
Lines of memory. RELICT borders as footprints for tourism	22
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	22
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	22
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	21
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves	21
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	21
Heritage and landscape narratives: how rural stereotypes are shaping UNESCO biosphere reserves	20

Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	20
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	20
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve	19
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	19
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	18
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	18
Socio-technical analysis and environmental justice as approaches to promoting a sustainable tourism model in biosphere reserves	18
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	18
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	18
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	18
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	17
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	17
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	17
Tinder and tourist intimacy : women’s digital encounters with tourists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	17
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	17
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	17
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	17
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	17
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	16
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	16
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	16
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	16
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	16
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	15
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	15
Digital nomadism: transforming places, contesting spaces	14
National tourism organizations and climate change	14
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	14
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	14
How Instagram shapes visitors’ relation to wild places	14
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	13
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	13
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	13
Non-place making: Chinese tourists’ production of tourist spaces through social media	13
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	13
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	13
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	12
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	12
Justice in tourism geographies	12
Legality of soundscape alterations induced by tourism-related soundmaking in residential locations	12
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	11
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	11
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	11
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	11
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	11
‘I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism	11
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	11
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	11
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	11
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	10

Where conflicts emerge: spatializing resident–tourist value tensions in Macau street vendor governance	10
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	10
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	10
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	10
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	10
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	10
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	10
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	9
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	9
Parallel Hong Kong: atmospheric politics of wanghong tourism between city and platform	9
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	9
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	9
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	9
Ethnic tourism, structural inequality, and livelihood differentiation in Southwest China	9
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	9
Critical localisms and commons governance in occupied surfscapes	9
Reshaping landscapes and human–environment relationships through geotourism	9
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	9
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	9
From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide	9