OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Tourism Geographies is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	130
Tourism and the blue economy	44
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	37
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	35
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	28
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	28
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	27
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	23
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	22
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	21
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	20
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	20
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	19
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	18
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	18
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	18
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	16
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	16
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	16
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	15
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	15
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	14
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	14
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	14
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	14

Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	13
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	13
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	13
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	13
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	12
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	12
The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism	12
Who kept travelling and where did they go? Domestic travel by residents of SE Queensland, Australia	12
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	12
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	12
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	12
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	12
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	12
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	12
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	11
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	11
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	11
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	11
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	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
National tourism organizations and climate change	11
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	10
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	10
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	10
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
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	9
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	9
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	9
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	9
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	8
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	8
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	8
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	8
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	8
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	8
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	7
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	7
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	7
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	7
Correction	7
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	7
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	7
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	7
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	7
Polar tourism and the changing geographies of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions	7
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	7
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	7

Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	7
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	7
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	7
“We have a shared history”: roots travel to Indonesia across Indo-European generations	6
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index	6
Regenerative tourism as a post-disaster response: lessons from Cammino nelle Terre Mutate	6
Future past of tourism: critical reflection’s on the rise of tourism futures	6
Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis	6
Sustainable intelligence and cultural worldview as triggers to preserve heritage tourism resources	6
Framework for regenerative entrepreneurship in tourism: fostering reciprocal relationships within place	6
A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progress and future agenda	6
Utopia or dystopia – deterrents to ecotourism development in Fiji	6
Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19	6
Book Review of Religious tourism in Northern Thailand: encounters with Buddhist Monks	6
Tourism and degrowth	6
Tourism as a catalyst for socio-political change	6
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions	6
Social innovations in tourism: Analysing processes, actors, and tipping points	6
Tourism and the elusive peace amid violent post-conflict geographies in Colombia	6
From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide	6
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism	5
The tourist pose: aesthetic labour, social media, and new gendered tourism geographies	5
Assembling tigers, dragons and hells: relational materialist geographies of curated themed spaces	5
Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas	5
From project to venture: facilitating engagement and entrepreneurship in rural tourism	5
The tourism periphery: from structural hierarchies of place to relational ontology	5
Black travel is not a monolith	5
Politics of tourism in public land use management: a reflexive treatise	5
Tourism ethnography and tourism geographies	5
A touristic habitation: automobilities of Chinese driving tourists	5
Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning	5
Tourism infrastructures	5
Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation	5
Digital storytelling and hopeful last chance tourism experiences	5
Travels with Nelson	5
Local businesses as boundary actors shaping sustainable tourism futures in Biosphere Reserves	5
Correction	4
Place production, urban tourism geographies and experiences of Muße	4
The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology	4
A tribute to Nelson Graburn: the joy of tourism research	4
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	4
Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions	4
International development and tourism geographies	4
‘We’re managing a different river now’: a political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed	4
Popular culture and tourism: conceptual advances and future directions	4
Beyond the dichotomy: revisiting endogenous-exogenous dynamics and place-based leadership in second-home development	4
Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development	4
Moving for a good life: tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants	4
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape	4
Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders	4
The influence of transportation and digital technologies on backcountry tourism and recreation in British Columbia, Canada	4
‘We are the roots!’ Decolonial practices of local tourism	3
Dark diaspora tourism: experiences and meanings in liminal spaces	3
Agency and coevolutionary path development in tourism destinations	3
Tourism geopolitics: routes and worldings	3
Destination attraction clustering: segmenting tourist movement patterns with geotagged information	3
Toward a critical geopolitics of smart tourism	3
Exploring queer people of colour’s perceptions of pride in Sydney	3
Dreaming of axolotl- searching for the regenerative dimension of tourism	3
Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback	3
‘Still hungry, not enough’: the past, present, and future of food tourism scholarship	3
The state-of-the-art in sport tourism geographies	3
Backpacker tourism: definitions, methods, debates	3
Religious tourism	3
Integrating second home owners into conservative rural communities in a developing country	3
Airbnb as a hotel competitor in touristified cities. Perceptions among upscale hoteliers in Barcelona	3
The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as labour	3
The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage	3
The myth of African American under-representation in nature tourism	3
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development	3
Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model	3