OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourism and the blue economy	136
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	41
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	31
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	29
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	29
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	24
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	23
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	21
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	21
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	21
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	20
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	19
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	19
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	18
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	18
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	17
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	16
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	16
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	16
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	16
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	15
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	15
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	14
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	14
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	14

Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	13
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	13
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	13
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	13
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	13
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	13
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	13
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	13
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	13
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	13
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	12
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	12
National tourism organizations and climate change	12
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	12
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	12
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	12
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	12
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	12
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	12
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	11
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	11
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	11
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	11
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	11
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	10
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	10
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	9
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	9
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	9
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	9
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	9
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	9
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	8
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	8
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	8
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	8
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	8
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	8
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	8
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	8
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	8
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	7
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	7
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	7
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	7
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	7
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	7
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	7
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	7

Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	7
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	7
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	7
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	7