OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 8. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	159
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	52
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	42
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	37
Tourism and the blue economy	32
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	32
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	29
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	27
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	26
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	25
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	24
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	23
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	22
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	21
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	21
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	21
Lines of memory. RELICT borders as footprints for tourism	21
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	21
Conceptualising destination degrowth for sustainable tourism development in three German biosphere reserves	20
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	19
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	18
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	17
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	17
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	17
Heritage and landscape narratives: how rural stereotypes are shaping UNESCO biosphere reserves	17

Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	17
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	16
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	16
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	16
Tinder and tourist intimacy : women’s digital encounters with tourists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	15
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	15
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	15
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	14
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	14
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve	14
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	14
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	14
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	14
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	14
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	13
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	13
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	12
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	12
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	12
How Instagram shapes visitors’ relation to wild places	12
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	12
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	12
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	11
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	11
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	11
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	11
National tourism organizations and climate change	11
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	11
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	11
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	11
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	10
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	10
‘I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism	10
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	10
Justice in tourism geographies	10
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	10
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	10
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	9
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	9
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	9
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	9
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	9
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	9
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	9
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	9
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	8
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	8
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	8
Reshaping landscapes and human–environment relationships through geotourism	8
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	8

Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	8
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	8
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	8
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	8
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	8
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	8
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	8