OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Tourism Geographies 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Capital mobilization: strategies for integrating migrant tourism entrepreneurs in rural regions	105
A touristic habitation: automobilities of Chinese driving tourists	36
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	33
Appraising the community in community-based tourism	33
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	31
Tourism, space, and place: bridging past, present and future research	31
Social mobility goes on holiday: rethinking space and communities through tourism mobilities	28
Sense of community and well-being in diaspora festivals	27
International Tourism Futures: The Drivers and Impact of Change	26
Policing freedom campers: the place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand	26
Material matters: understanding ‘local food’ through a material-semiotic approach	21
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	20
Tourism-generated energy use characteristics and sustainability transitions	19
Visual and aesthetic markers of gentrification: agency of mapping and tourist destinations	18
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	17
Indigenous Peoples’ rights and tourism: thinking about colonisation	16
Stakeholder collaboration, a solution to overtourism? A case study on Sagada, the Philippines	15
Spatial dynamics, dating app tourists, and location-porting in the tourist encounter	14
Ethnic tourism in China: tourism-related (dis)empowerment of Miao villages in Hunan province	14
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	13
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	13
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	13
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out	12
‘We and our stories’: constructing food experiences in a UNESCO gastronomy city	11
Tourism and the blue economy	11

Spatial justice and street accessibility for wheelchair users in Macao	11
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: actor-network theory, critical proximity and down to earth	11
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	11
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	10
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	10
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	10
In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith	10
The tourism periphery: from structural hierarchies of place to relational ontology	10
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	9
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	9
Sustainability transitions in tourism: on the transformation of a fragmented sector	9
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	9
Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas	8
Regenerative tourism development as a response to crisis: harnessing practise-led approaches	8
Narcotourism: a conceptual framework and research agenda	8
Sinking into the ocean? Climate change risks and second home planning	8
Traveling to escape, resist, and belong: centering black experiences within tourism scholarship	7
Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice	7
Introduction to special issue on island tourism resilience	7
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	7
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	7
A community perspective on local ecotourism development: lessons from Komodo National Park	7
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions	6
Avoiding the (tourist) gaze: pursuit of the ‘authentic’ in the Tbilisi edgelands	6
Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies	6
‘We’re managing a different river now’: a political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed	6
Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19	6
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	6
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	6
Mobilities and health: a relational perspective	6
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	6
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	6
Ancestral tourism: at the intersection of roots journeys and genealogy research	6
Author meets critic: a critical and timely exploration of Yucatán’s predatory and sticky tourism	6
Correction	5
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	5
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery: perspectives from Greenland	5
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	5
The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology	5
Here and now – the role of mindfulness in post-pandemic tourism	5
Place production, urban tourism geographies and experiences of Muße	5
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: a tourism geographies agenda	5
Remembering “Hosts and Guests”: a tribute to Valene Smith (1926–2024)	5
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	5
International development and tourism geographies	5
Intersectional examination of travel well-being and activities of LGB travellers	5
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	5
Confronting historical narratives at the Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine, Florida	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

Tourists’ perceptions of wind turbines: conceptualizations of rural space in sustainability transitions	4
Community-based tourism resilience in response to COVID-19 in Brazil’s Kalunga Territory	4
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics	4
Why travel?: life explorations and ‘Tourism Geographies’ in a world of travel	4
Interpath relations and the triggering of wine-tourism development	4
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after COVID-19	4
From ‘sustainable tourism’ to ‘sustainability transitions in tourism’?	4
Placing African American museums in the American tourism landscape	4
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	4
Emergent geographies of digital nomadism: conceptual framing, insights and implications for tourism	4
Location and regionalization patterns of hotel chains: evidence from China	4
Social media and tourism geographies: mapping future research agenda	4
The influence of transportation and digital technologies on backcountry tourism and recreation in British Columbia, Canada	4
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	4
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	3
Bordering, ordering and othering through tourism: the tourism geographies of borders	3
The state-of-the-art in sport tourism geographies	3
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	3
A tribute to Nelson Graburn: the joy of tourism research	3
From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide	3
TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	3
Airbnb as a hotel competitor in touristified cities. Perceptions among upscale hoteliers in Barcelona	3
What health preparations do international students make for their academic sojourn?	3
Polar tourism and the changing geographies of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions	3
Rethinking rurality in rural tourism: a new materialist approach	3
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	3
Digital technology, tourism and geographies of inequality	3
Indexing Valene Smith’s contributions to the Anthropology of tourism and tourism studies	3
Reproduction of consumer spaces and historic district touristification in Old Beijing City	3
Tourism and degrowth	3
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	3
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	3
The role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development in tourism	3
Correction	3
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index	2
Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites	2
Caring for melting glaciers	2
Advancing evolutionary economic geographies of tourism: trigger events, transformative moments and destination path shaping	2
Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation of Woljeong, South Korea	2
Regenerative tourism as a post-disaster response: lessons from Cammino nelle Terre Mutate	2
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	2
Vlogging gastronomic tourism: understanding Global North-South dynamics in YouTube videos and their audiences’ feedback	2
Denialist and neoliberal approaches to tourism and the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19	2
Experiencing therapeutic soundscapes in rural tourism destinations	2
Enabling home and destinations for the well-being of seasonal retired tourists	2
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	2
Popular culture and tourism: conceptual advances and future directions	2
Gaze and reflexivity in postcolonial cinema: the pragmatic turn in critical tourism studies	2
Dark diaspora tourism: experiences and meanings in liminal spaces	2
NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia	2
Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	2
Public funding and destination evolution in sparsely populated Arctic regions	2
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	2