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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	114
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	41
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	39
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	35
Tourism and the blue economy	34
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	33
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	32
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	28
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	28
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	28
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	24
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	21
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	20
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	18
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	18
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	17
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	16
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	16
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	16
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	16
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	16
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	14
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	14
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	14
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	13

An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	13
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	13
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	13
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	12
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	12
Uber and employment in the Global South – not-so-decent work	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
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	12
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	11
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	11
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	11
Asian tourism through a multifaceted lens. Current Issues in Asian Tourism	11
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	11
National tourism organizations and climate change	11
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	11
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	11
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	11
Lifestyle skiing contributes to health and eudaimonic well-being: an emergent Chinese lifestyle mobility‌	11
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	11
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	10
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	10
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	10
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	10
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	10
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	9
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	9
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	9
Tourism paradoxes: Contradictions, controversies and challenges	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
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	8
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	8
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	8
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	8
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	8
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	8
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	7
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	7
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	7
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	7
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	7
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	7
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	7
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	7
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	7
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	7
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	7
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	7