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The aim of this research is to carry out a bibliometric and bibliographic study of the scientific production indexed in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) on the use of cultural heritage by tourism as an alternative for regional development. This research allows us to observe the current situation of this area of study and to develop a research roadmap on this subject. The methodology used focuses on applying productivity, dispersion, collaboration, and citation indicators to a set of 103 articles identified through an advanced search of terms, in addition to applying an iterative analysis for the bibliographic study. The main findings of this study show that the documents are mostly analytical, mainly signed by a single author, and the productivity rate per author is 1.04. The co-author index in the subject is 2.34, and the subject is in an exponential growth phase that began in 2004, with a ratio of 6.53 articles/year, with the majority of the production being by a single author per article. The country with the highest production is China, with 28 articles, 26 authors, 28 authorships, and 15 centers, followed by the Russian Federation, with 21 articles. Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia) is the most productive institution, with 15 authorships, and there is a group of aspiring authors (between 2 and 4 articles) whose geographical affiliation is Malaysia, a group that represents 3% of the total of authors and concentrates 17 articles.

The tourism program “Pueblos Magicos” was created in 2001 by the Mexican Secretary of Tourism (Sectur), together with its brand, with the aim of promoting tourism by preserving secular and ancestral traditions, as well as revitalizing cities and towns that make great efforts to protect and safeguard their cultural wealth. In this context, the aim of this research work is to show the current state of scientific research carried out within the context of the Magic Towns of Mexico. The work methodology is based on the bibliometric analysis of the scientific production indexed in two main international databases: Web of Science and Scopus. The application of this technique will make it possible to obtain a scientific mapping of the production (growth, researchers in the subject, production impact through the number of citations, network analysis, etc.), with the aim of observing the evolution in the generation of knowledge regarding this tourism development tool that acts as a distinctive brand for tourism in Mexico. This mapping is useful for researchers as it provides information on the research carried out so far, allowing them to identify gaps to work on in their future research work. The systematic search process identified 52 articles. The results indicate that the research carried out in this context is incipient, with few researchers addressing the subject on a continuous basis and most of them being transient researchers with a single article. Most of the research was approached from the perspective of cultural heritage, cultural resources, inherited resources, cultural tourism, public policy, local development and sustainable tourism, and sustainable development. In light of the number of articles published, all of these can be considered to be incipient lines of research.

Community-Based Tourism is a proposal for planning and developing localities through tourism, based on the sustainability and sustainable development’s concepts, promoting the communities’ social emancipation through the population’s leading role in self-management of their goods, services and social capital, in order to achieve the improvement of the quality of life of its residents and the conservation of its environmental, historical and cultural heritage. In order to understand the scientific literature that has gained space since 1990, and to identify possible gaps in the subject, this article brings together an Literature’s Integrative Review (LIR) and a Bibliometric Study (BS) to analyze a sample of 158 articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English distributed by 64 journals. The study fulfilled the three main bibliometric’s laws: Lotka, Bradford and Zipf, indicating the CBT as an expanding and pulverized production theme. Finally, the synthesis of knowledge identified as possible theoretical gaps: governance and commercialization.

We present a bibliometric and social network analysis of the Brazilian field of tourism, taken as the articles of 16 Brazilian tourism journals. Utilizing keywords, we describe and evaluate its trajectory (1990-2018), with focus on the cultural tourism cluster. We study the authorship (authors, institutions and geographic distribution), journals (dispersal of publication), impact and intellectual structure of the cluster. It is clearly delimited, and includes “expected” keywords that orbit around cultural tourism, culture and heritage. Authorship is relatively fragmented; there is an overrepresentation of the Northeast Region of Brazil. In the references, there is a distinct social sciences orientation; there are relatively few authors and texts concerned with cultural tourism as a market segment. Margarita Barretto’s dominance and centrality in the intellectual structure is clear. Concerning the impact, the cluster has an average of actual citations per article just below that verified for the field.

Since the Digne Convention in 1991, the literature related to Geoparks has gained a growing interest on the academy’s part, especially in achieving the preservation of geological interest sites through sustainable tourism. This article aims to provide an analysis of the academic research on Geoparks, based on publications in the Scopus database in the period 2002–2020. Bibliometric analysis methods and bibliographic display maps were examined using VOSviewer software. The bibliometric analysis process comprises three phases: (i) Search Criteria and Source Identification, (ii) software and data extraction, and (iii) data analysis and interpretation. The results show geoparks in full growth as a scientific discipline, thanks to the contribution of various authors, institutions, journals, and related topics that confirm the importance of this field of study. Additionally, bibliometric maps lead to an understanding of the intellectual structure of the subject, in which keyword co-occurrence analysis shows six main themes, ranging from ‘UNESCO Global Geoparks’ to ‘Geo-tourism-Sustainable Tourism’. this, combined with maps of co-citation, broadly exhibits this structure and development, showing areas of current interest and potential development, thus offering the latest knowledge on Geopark research worldwide. There is a growing concentration of research on geomorphological heritage and geo-tourism, focusing on methodologies to evaluate the specialities of this type of heritage and define the concept of geo-tourism; there is a great interest especially in the evaluation and identification of geo-site/geo-morphosites which try to eliminate subjectivity in methods and focus on sustainable development of the localities.

The study aimed to analyze the international literature on people management in tourism between the years 2016 to 2020. For this, an exploratory and descriptive research was developed based on a literature review of relevant articles published in the database of Web of Science. The research resulted in a total of 236 publications that were analyzed, treated and categorized through frequency analysis, bibliometric analysis and content analysis. As a result, it was found that studies on people management in tourism are varied, with a multiplicity of themes, authors, journals and countries that host the publications. Eleven thematic categories were identified, which permeated the different characteristics that encompass the intersection of these fields of studies. The most explored topic was Sustainable Human Resources Management, while Human Resources Management and Information Technology was the topic that showed the least signs of saturation. Finally, the study demonstrates the plurality of themes, concepts and ideas that permeate the field of people management applied to tourism, suggesting new directions and paths for future research.

Entrepreneurship and tourism are linked as relevant aspects of study due to their influence on the society’s development. In attempt to identify the main theoretical contributions in the 21st century, a bibliometric study was carried out, based on publications of tourism entrepreneurship in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. As a result, data from 268 documents were obtained and processed in VosViewer. The main findings place Haber, Altinay, and Hallak as the most cited authors; when analyzing co-authorship, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling by authors, the distribution changes in relation to the contribution. England, Australia, and United States are the main countries that originate publications on the subject and have an impact on their dissemination; and Tourism Management is the Journal with the highest number of citations. The topics were grouped into three clusters: (1) Sustainable Rural Tourism, (2) Small business and lifestyle, and (3) Social entrepreneurship, with a predominantly human and social focus over the economic vision. This study can be the basis for further studies about adjacent, related, or emerging topics to entrepreneurship in tourism, as well as to generate practical proposals for new or potential entrepreneurs.

Hospitality Industry has a particular context, it is broadly competitive, and in permanent change. An organizational culture can improve the results of different organizations. This study evaluates the organizational culture research in the field of the hospitality industry to obtain an understanding of its actual situation and future. The study used bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review to examine publications of five journals about hospitality in the Web of Science database, from 1980 to April 2019. Findings indicate that hotels are the main field of research of the hospitality industry, and the quantitative methodology approach is the most used. Moreover, it shows three paths of recent research for future analysis.

The objective of this study is to analyze the advances in research on gentrification and tourism from a general perspective. Based on a bibliometric analysis of 278 studies and a literature review of 43 research studies on gentrification and tourism from the Scopus™ database for the period 1990-2021, the authors discuss the results from the following perspectives: general results, number of publications per year, citation of articles, main authors, the most important journals, the most prominent institutions and the countries with the highest productivity. A review of the economic and socio-environmental effects, both positive and negative, of gentrification are presented. The results of the analysis can be used to improve understanding of gentrification and tourism research in order to support further research in this area. As a conclusion, it can be said that gentrification can lead to improvements in the physical and economic context of a city (particularly their neighborhoods) or a territory, but also involves different consequences in the social and environmental context; indeed, gentrification can change communities.

The research status of electronic word of mouth in the tourism sector was evaluated and a research agenda was formulated. Through bibliometric analysis, 1017 scientific articles indexed in Scopus between 2008 and 2021 were reviewed. Descriptive indicators, qualitative analysis of texts, and maps of social networks allowed to summarize the literature. Six research streams were identified: automatic classification of texts, content generated by tourists, eWOM valence, decision making, impact of eWOM on performance, and impact on trust. For future research, it is suggested to include topics such as elements that favor eWOM, effects of business attributes on eWOM, factors driving the generation of eWOM, changes in eWOM behavior and online reviews, and business management.

Digital technologies have radically changed the tourism industry and gaining a lot of attention from the stakeholders. At present, there is voluminous but fragmented research to cover the various aspects of digital tourism, but a consolidated “big picture” of the extant research is missing. By performing a bibliometric analysis of 827 papers on digital tourism, an attempt has been made to fill this void. The investigation revealed that the management of smart destinations, the internet as a communication and marketing channel, technology and sustainability, and consumer behavior are emerging research directions in digital tourism. Observations regarding little scientific interest and collaborations in regions like Russia and Africa present an opportunity for researchers and businesses to set directions and strategies for the future.

We present a bibliometric and social network analysis of the Brazilian field of tourism, taken as the articles of 16 Brazilian tourism journals. Utilizing keywords, we describe and evaluate its trajectory (1990‑2018), with focus on the cultural tourism cluster. We study the authorship (authors, institutions and geographic distribution), journals (dispersal of publication), impact and intellectual structure of the cluster. It is clearly delimited, and includes “expected” keywords that orbit around cultural tourism, culture and heritage. Authorship is relatively fragmented; there is an overrepresentation of the Northeast Region of Brazil. In the references, there is a distinct social sciences orientation; there are relatively few authors and texts concerned with cultural tourism as a market segment. Margarita Barretto’s dominance and centrality in the intellectual structure is clear. Concerning the impact, the cluster has an average of actual citations per article just below that verified for the field.

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of a total of 113 publications released between 1996 and 2021 that analyse academic training in sustainability in tourism universities worldwide. The main objective of this analysis is to identify the most relevant research in this field and the most current research trends in the Web of Science database. To this end, we carried out a review of the productivity of the most prolific authors, journals and geographical regions. This was followed by analyses of co-authorship networks and keyword co-occurrences.

This research provides an empirical overview of articles and authors referring to research on wine tourism, analyzed from 2000 to 2021, and what they contribute to deepening the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8. The articles were examined through a bibliometric approach based on data from 199 records stored in the Web of Science (JCR), applying traditional bibliometric laws, and using VOSviewer for data processing and metadata. The results highlight an exponential increase in scientific production without interruptions between 2005 and 2020, with a concentration in only 35 highly cited authors, where the hegemony is held by Australia, among the co-authorship networks of worldwide relevance. The main topics observed in the literature are local development through wine tourism, sustainability and nature conservation, and strategies for sustainable development. Finally, there are six articles with great worldwide influence in wine tourism studies that maintain in their entirety the contribution made by researchers affiliated with Australian universities.

This study aims to identify research trends associated with the development of brand management in the tourism sector. To this end, bibliometric analysis has been carried out, using the R Core Team 20201-Bibliometrix software, on the scientific production, the most influential countries, authors, and journals, and the co-occurrence of keywords in the 1421 articles published to date in the Scopus database. This analysis was then complemented with a systematic qualitative evaluation using the PRISMA technique. The results obtained show the trend and impact of the literature published to date and the established and emerging research groups. Furthermore, they identify that research procedures related to brand communities, co-branding, brand architecture, positioning, and brand research in the tourism sector need to be strengthened. Therefore, this study identifies key research questions in a way that provides a planning framework for future research in this field.

Tourism is an important sector of the industry with global influence on the economy and development while global change is nowadays a major challenge worldwide. This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis that evidences the trends of scientific production on “tourism” and “global change”, supported by visualization techniques provided by VOSviewer software. A total of 3519 documents were retrieved from Scopus database and the analysis includes the identification of frequencies of papers published, most influential authors, countries with the highest contributions, co-occurrences term map, author co-citations analysis, and co-citation map by countries. Our findings evidence that there is an interrelation between the terms “tourism” and “global change” and that the literature on that topic has experienced sustained growth worldwide through collaboration networks including several prolific authors.

Traditionally, the study of tourist events has been carried out from different disciplinary approaches, among which management, economics, and anthropology stand out. This has contributed to the formation of a body of knowledge where theoretical and methodological approaches converge that have promoted a progressive understanding of the object of study. The biocultural diversity of Latin America, evident through its food heritage, has led to the implementation of events as a means to value this type of heritage. Despite its relevance to the subcontinent, research on these types of events is not notable in the scientific literature. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify trends and research gaps in the construction of knowledge about tourism events based on food heritage in Latin America. This study presents a bibliometric analysis and a systematization of the research lines developed up to now. The analysis carried out allowed us to recognize that there is a need to deepen the role of the agency of the local actors involved in this type of event since apart from fulfilling an economic function, its action is linked to the management and operation of the events allows strengthening the social fabric.

This article analyses the scientific production related to tourism and mushrooms. The method used was a bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review. The main results show that it is a recent area of study that predominates in Spain but that will expand and gain relevance over time. The thematic analysis has made it possible to structure the information according to the economic contribution of this tourist niche, the well-being it brings to residents and tourists, the importance of a sustainable development of the activity, and the promotion and marketing of this new tourism. Supporting mycological tourism will help the development of rural areas and bring physical, mental, social, educational, and nutritional benefits to residents and tourists. This study has allowed us to develop a future research agenda, highlighting the importance of further research to harness the benefits of mycological tourism while at the same time transferring that knowledge to stakeholders, which will be necessary.

The present study analyzes the scientific production in ScienceDirect and Scopus databases associated with 94 original articles on accessible tourism in the period 2008 to the first half of 2019. Methodology: Exploratory-descriptive study, based on the selection of keywords and search criteria; standardization, systematization of inquiry and analysis of information through the use of EndNote X8, Bibexcel, Pajek; and, vos-viewer. Results: It was identified that the year of greatest productivity was 2016 with a total of 18 publications. The scientific journals with the highest production are: Annals of Tourism Research with 17 publications and Tourism Management with 11 disclosures. Conclusion: During the period under study there was gradual growth in recent years, whereby roughly 17 publications on the subject are foreseen for 2020. It was identified that the most common issues are: disability, accessibility, inclusion, accessible tourism, legislation.

Cultural tourism has performed its activities promisingly considering its remarkable growth throughout the vast cultural diversity of the world. Knowing that cultural motivations tend to represent important criteria for choosing a tourist destination, it becomes increasingly important to frame cultural tourism along the lines of sustainability. The general objective of this study is to identify growth trends and analyze the behavior of scientific productivity in the field of cultural tourism sustainability. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a bibliometric study was carried out which allows the measurement and surveying of scientific production indexes on a given topic of interest. To review the literature, the Web of Science database and its core collection were used. The main findings reveal that scientific productions about sustainability and cultural tourism grew in 2015. Spain is in a prominent position among the most productive countries. In the 2015-2019 period, pasos. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural has contributed with the largest number of publications in the area. Finally, seven research topics were identified including: perspectives on tourism, cultural tourism, identity, perception of residents, perception of visitors, cultural tourism and social capital, and attitudes of cultural conservation.

In developed and emerging economies, important literature on sustainable tourism development has emerged. In the last decade, academics, businessmen, and politicians have increasingly recognized that clear guidelines are necessary for the development and sustainability of tourist destinations. The promotion of sustainable tourism development is urgent due to the double trend of global climate change and the tourism industry overcrowding worldwide. This review used scientific mapping techniques to examine 521 documents indexed in ScopusTM and WoSTM on the development of sustainable tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The information was processed in BibliometrixTM and VOSviwerTM to facilitate understanding the data. The objectives of the review were to document the size, growth, and distribution of this literature in Latin America and the Caribbean, to identify its main journals, authors, and documents, and highlight emerging issues and the emerging intellectual structure because of the limited availability of information in the current literature. The review provides guidelines for academics in the region to develop research that may favor the development of sustainable tourism in the future.

This paper aims at identifying the state of academic research on the influence of Internet on tourism consumer behaviour. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Methodology was used to select the data and the analysis was complemented with bibliometric indicators. This research identified 83 relevant articles related to the influence of Internet on tourism consumer behaviour. The systematic review of the academic literature demonstrated that the Internet influences tourism consumer behaviour during the entire travel cycle stages. During the pre-consumption stage, motivations and decision-making process are highly influenced by several online sources. However, in the case of expectations, limited research was found on this area. Value co-creation behaviour is influenced by Internet during the final two stages of the travel cycle stages. Finally, evidence suggests that loyalty is influenced during the consumption and post-consumption stages. These results provide a categorized analysis of the influence of Internet on the behavioural variables during each of the travel cycle stages for academicians and practitioners. The analysis was conducted on two major academic databases: Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. The inclusion of other data sources and other types of secondary data could complement these results

This study aims to investigate, through a social network analysis, the attributes and representativeness of Circular Economy (CE) and Tourism in the state-of-the-art of scientific production published in the Web of Science from 2017 to 2020. The results indicate a dispersion in all collaboration networks due to the low incidence of studies published internationally on both subjects. The most publicized matters were agritourism, sustainable development, sustainability, waste, tourist practices, environmental impacts, greenhouse gases, innovation, and hospitality. The study concludes with a contemporary view and brings to light data, information, and state-of-the-art knowledge through bibliometric indicators and social networks. It contributes to a better understanding of how those subjects were approached and disseminated at the global level by actors involved in building scientific knowledge, through their collaboration networks-which are preponderant to improve and strengthen such understanding-and through the dissemination and socialization of knowledge on the subjects assessed in this study. In short, the results contribute to position CE and Tourism research in the academic general debate and help minimize potential deficiencies and blind spots related to them.

We investigated the set of Brazilian tourism journals, specifically 3,887 articles published in 16 journals, from 1990 to 2018. The three main objectives of this study are: a) to rank authors, institutions, and countries in the field of tourism studies in Brazil, using productivity, centrality, and impact metrics, for 1990-1999, 1990-2009, and 1990-2018; b) to characterize the leading elements – i.e. top-ranked ones; and c) to compare these rankings with h-index based rankings. A bibliometric and social network study was carried out, with manual data collection and revision and disambiguation. Productivity (full and fractional counting), centrality (degree, betweenness, and PageRank), and impact (based on actual citations) metrics were calculated. In summary, the leading authors are affiliated with institutions in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil, and they are linked to graduate programs. For institutions, offering a graduate program in tourism or in a related field seems to be a key factor. The University of Sao Paulo (USP) and the University of Vale do Itaja(UNIVALI) clearly stand out in all metrics. Brazil occupies the first position in productivity, centrality, and impact, followed by Spain.

We study the field of tourism in Brazil, taken as the individuals who, in their curriculum Lattes, declare they work in this field. The main objectives are to characterize these individuals, to verify the main institutions of academic formation and work, and to identify the main scientific journals. We used methods of bibliometric analysis and of social networks analysis. The results indicate the existence of a fragmented and not yet mature field of knowledge.

Sustainability, entrepreneurship and tourism, destination and hospitality research have attracted scholars’ attention for their relevance in bringing to fruition a future that links economic well-being with the environmental, cultural, and social sustainability of human beings. This article provides a bibliometric overview of the academic research where these topics intersect. To accomplish this, various bibliometric methods are implemented, which include a performance analysis and graphic mapping of the academic production in this specific topic. This research uses the Web of Science database to identify and classify the most preponderant investigations in the field and considers articles, authors, institutions, countries, and journals. To complete the performance analysis, a series of indicators, such as number of papers and number of citations, are used. Graphic visualization maps are produced using the co-citation and co-occurrence of keywords under the Visualization of Similarities—VOSviewer—software. The results show a growing concern for entrepreneurship in sustainable tourism development research, which is evidenced in the increasing number of studies during the last decade. Some influential research institutions and authors from countries including the USA, New Zealand, and Norway are found to be influential leaders in this topic. Additionally, the results show that journals from the area of hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism are frontrunners in this subject.

Tourism management involves using a systematic approach to spatial planning that involves multiple variables in land planning. However, it is common to find multiple approaches for the more negative aspects of tourism, such as its impact on natural spaces. On the other hand, the idea of including tourism in land planning finds unanimous support in academia. Although scientific research on tourism and land planning in natural areas is significant, many topics do not receive sufficient attention and the domain has not yet been subject to a systematic analysis, which is the purpose of the present study. To this end, bibliometric data is gathered from the Scopus database and analyzed through a bibliometric approach involving keyword analysis with Pearson correlation coefficient. The results indicate that development, landscaping, and management are the most researched topics, followed by community and system, natural/nature, and the local community. The results of the detailed analysis of the word “tourism” connected with planning in natural spaces reveal that research in the area defends sustainable management, economic growth, energy management and monitoring, and the adoption of a green economy model by the hospitality industry. By featuring the overall structure of research on tourism and land planning in natural spaces published in Scopus, this study provides helpful and timely information to researchers, scholars, destination managers, industry managers, and tourism and hospitality consultants.

This article provides a scientific production overview of hospitality, leisure, and tourism studies in Chile, including key factors of interest regarding this social science subdiscipline. The fundamental knowledge contributions are examined using a scientometric approach (spatial, productive, of impact, and relational) based on data from records stored in the Web of Science (JCR and ESCI). This approach aims to critically analyze the scientific production on hospitality, leisure, and tourism (HLT) with contributions from authors affiliated with Chile, to respond to the connection between this research, the sectoral education, and sustainable development of the HLT industry. At the results level, an increase in scientific production in the last decade, a breadth revealed in publications’ quality terms, insertion in worldwide relevance co-authorship networks, an evolution from general issues to those of the discipline itself (cultural tourism, wine tourism, tourism marketing, hospitality industry, and sustainable tourism), a concentration on ecotourism education, and a disconnection between the diverse knowledge-producing centers and those of sectoral training were identified.

Family businesses are of particular economic relevance in the international hospitality and tourism industry. However, there are few studies that address their specific characteristics and objectives. The aim of this study is to produce a bibliometric overview that reveals the structure underpinning the analysis of the tourism family business in the business and management research field. The study also reveals the evolution of this research over time, as well as the most relevant related concepts and study gaps. Through a keyword co-occurrence analysis and a systematic review of 129 studies on tourism family businesses published between 1997 and 2020, the main contributions were organized into four thematic clusters, which include specific theoretical approaches. The clusters are Entrepreneurship, Marketing Orientation and Innovation Performance; Capabilities and Competitiveness; Sustainability; and Strategy and Economic Performance. On the basis of these results, this study introduces an integrative framework for tourism family business research, clarifying the rich diversity of research paths that seek to explain tourism business competitiveness, and identifying potential directions for future research aimed at further developing the field.

Tourism based on intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has been gaining prominence within current tourism practices, and also in tourism studies. In this sense, this bibliometric study aims to characterize the production and publications in Ibero-American tourism journals in order to determine the advances and gaps in research on ICH. Fifty-nine articles from 12 tourism journals were analyzed. The findings reveal that, although cultural heritage tourism is a global trend, the publications analyzed here do not reflect this. Regional publications honour their geographical scope both in the origin of their authors and in the topics covered, which gives this work a purely regional perspective. There is no marked tendency for publications or authors to engage in systematic research and publication on ICH in its relationship with tourism. Brazil and Spain stand out as the most prolific countries in terms of the number of authors and affiliate institutions, and issues related to the tourist use of heritage, heritage education and the impacts of tourism are also prominent. These results allow researchers in tourism or ICH to locate specialized articles on Ibero-America and editors of regional tourism journals to recognize the lack of articles on ICH, as well as the need to publish in English to gain visibility. Future research should incorporate post-COVID-19 recovery within a sustainable approach to tourism use of the ICH.

Island ecosystems have very specific physical, economic and socio-cultural characteristics, which are shared by most of these ecosystems regardless of their geographical area. These characteristics include well defined geographical boundaries that lead to a greater degree of isolation, lack of economically exploitable resources, great external dependence for consumption, cultural and natural heritage with a high uniqueness level and a high concentration of endemic plant and animal species. All of them are responsible for the high development dependence level linked to the tourism activity of these ecosystems. Thus, island ecosystems are currently an important international tourism destination, where a great diversity of very attractive natural and cultural resources and of great heritage value are concentrated. This fact allows for the development of tourism activities of great heterogeneity among countries or regions of the world that host these island ecosystems. The aim of this research was to identify and analyze, through a bibliometric and bibliographic analysis, the scientific production indexed in the international Scopus database, which addresses the subject of use of cultural and natural resources by tourism in island ecosystems. This scientific mapping allows us to observe the evolution of scientific production in this field of study. The results show that this is a new subject (a large number of transient authors), predominantly affiliated with the United States and Spain. The most followed research lines to date are destination management followed very far by responsible environmental behavior and the impacts of sustainable development. However, the keywords with the highest co-occurrence show that the hot topics are tourism exploitation in the ecotourism field and sustainable tourism development. This research is considered the first bibliometric study carried out which is related to this thematic approach, providing a clear in-depth analysis for researchers and thereby facilitating the approach of future research work.