OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Tourist Studies is 2. 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
‘If not now, then never’: Conceptualising the grad trip	27
Tiny witnesses: Preschoolers’ embodied encounters with dark heritage and parental silence in a Chinese Art Museum	26
Editors-in-chief notes	23
Volunteer tourism in the context of development thinking	18
Ebbs and flows of precarity and hope: Editor-in-chief notes	18
Engineering the sacred: Ritual design, emotional synchrony, and global youth identity at Tomorrowland	17
Understanding the crafting tactics: Using online writing to deal with negative travel experiences	16
Constructing extraordinary experience from everyday life: Zibo barbecue check-in vlogs’ digital narratives	14
Spaces, places, and tourismscapes: Editor-in-Chief notes	12
Mirrors, labour, and contested ground: Tourism research at the intersection of heritage, resistance, and crisis: Editors-in-chief notes	12
Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?	10
Tourism narratives in art, ethnography and (social) media: Editors-in-chief notes	10
Chinese tourists’ changing behavior in package tours: The suppliers’ account	10
Dark tourism and Rwandan media industries: Promoting nation and the mythology of memory	10
How Chinese ethnic villagers perform rurality in tourism: Perspectives of embodiment and new materialism	9
Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears: Authenticity and nature in Anthropocene tourism	8
Ontological politics in competing tourismscapes: The rise of a public on the Nayarit Riviera, Mexico	8
Making continuity: How multiple production networks sustain Huimo as an intangible cultural heritage	8
Tourism mobilities, tourist performances: Editors-in-chief’s notes	7
Emerging from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic and building back better: Tourist Studies and Asian critical tourism scholarship	7
‘Enjoyers’, ‘seekers’ and ‘vacationers’. Proposal for a typology of motorhome travellers in Europe	6
Dwelling on the move: Negotiating home and place with resident communities	6
Not just sightseeing but resonating: reframing the trouble with the good life in post-tourism	5
Guest experience at internet-celebrated B&Bs: A media-spectacle inquiry	5
The fishes strike back! A temporal-material-discursive analysis of a defunct aquarium	5

Travel as rite, privilege as right: Grad trips and the social reproduction of class in Singapore	5
The road back to performance: Promise and precarity of tourism development for the lives of Siem Reap dancers	4
“I would like to see some changes”: Tourism as perceived by Canarians	4
Migrant support volunteer tourism facing crises: Patchwork autoethnographies on Lesvos (Greece)	4
Restructuring human-animal relations in rural tourism destinations	4
Is it the “end of tourism as such” or a new beginning? Response to José López-González and Michalis Nikolakakis	4
Tourism and settler colonialism: Unraveling neoliberal façades and spatial dispossession	4
“We’re no longer the senzala ”: Race, space, and difference in the Ethnic Capital of Brazil	4
Navigating touristification through social entrepreneurship: Community-based tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	4
Confronting labour loss in the tourist city	4
More-than-food tourism	3
Introduction to precarity and hope	3
Defending against out-migration: Rural precarity, tourism, and hope in Quilotoa, Ecuador	3
Editors’ Notes	3
Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology	3
‘I had more time to listen to my inner voice’: Zen meditation tourism for Generation Z	3
Editors-in-chief notes	3
Power, community involvement, and sustainability of tourism destinations	2
Encountering pandas and their valleys in precarious times: A tourism assemblage perspective	2
Listening otherwise: From “silent tourism” soundscapes to privileged sonic ways of knowing	2
‘He Wei Gui’: The wisdom and action of tourism photography vendors to handle conflicts in Canton Tower Scenic Area	2
Ethical ambivalence in postcolonial touristic encounters	2
On Dean MacCannell’s shrouded sociology of tourism	2
“Only good for taking photos?”: Understanding the production and evolution of Wanghong tourism destinations in the digital era	2
Wildlife-tourist sociality on the Tibetan Plateau: Rethinking wildlife tourism through multispecies ethnographic perspectives	2