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 2021-06-01 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
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	28
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
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
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	16
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
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	14
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	14
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	14
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	13

Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	13
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	13
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	13
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
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
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
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
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	10
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
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	9
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	9
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
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
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
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
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

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