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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourism and the blue economy	109
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	37
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	36
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	34
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	33
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	33
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	32
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	30
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	28
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	27
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	27
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	23
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	20
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	19
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	18
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	17
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	16
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	16
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	14
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	14
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	14
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	14
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	13
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	13
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	13

Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	12
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	12
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	12
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	12
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	11
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	11
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	11
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	11
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	11
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	10
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	10
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	10
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	10
Asian tourism through a multifaceted lens. Current Issues in Asian Tourism	10
National tourism organizations and climate change	10
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	10
Uber and employment in the Global South – not-so-decent work	10
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	10
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	9
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	8
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	8
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	8
Lifestyle skiing contributes to health and eudaimonic well-being: an emergent Chinese lifestyle mobility‌	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	7
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	7
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	7
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	7
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	7
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	7
Tourism paradoxes: Contradictions, controversies and challenges	7
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	7
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	7
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	7
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	7
International Tourism Futures: The Drivers and Impact of Change	7
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	7
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	7
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	7
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	7