OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tourism and the blue economy	153
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis	48
From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination	36
Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability	34
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	30
What of tomorrow night? Urban night im/mobilities in Venice	29
The use of Instagram as a gaytrification tool for a queer precinct	26
Commodification of photogenic sites and rise of ‘selfie parks’ as tourist enclaves	23
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	23
Trigger events, moments, and destination evolution in a post-socialist context	23
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory	22
Inclusive research in tourism: are we enabling or disabling people with disability?	22
Community perceptions of home represented on screen: implications for film-induced tourism	21
Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China	20
Re-examining tourist health, safety, and well-being in a global pandemic context.	19
The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino-Japanese relations through museum geopolitics	19
Illusion of inclusion: #BlackVanlife as counter-storytelling	18
The end of participatory destination governance as we thought to know it	18
Authenticity: the state-of-the-art in tourism geographies	18
On tourism, geography and the biopolitical	18
Rendering land touristifiable: (eco)tourism and land use change	18
The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography	17
Knowledge mobilization, wildfire risk, and sustainable tourism in UNESCO biosphere reserves	17
An auto-ethnography of confronting the transatlantic slavery discourses of Liverpool	17
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) – centring children’s experiences of Indigenous-led tourism	16

TripAdvisor as a ‘geo-pastoral technology’	15
Mapping tourist landscapes in pandemic times: a dwelling-in-motion perspective	15
Heritage and landscape narratives: how rural stereotypes are shaping UNESCO biosphere reserves	15
Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses	15
Regenerative tourism: a state-of-the-art review	14
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers	14
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve	14
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire	14
Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework	13
Geographies of hotel guest electricity, water and gas consumption	13
National tourism organizations and climate change	13
Tourism geographies and disaster risk: a state-of-the art review and agenda	13
Communities of learning and practice: a research agenda in tourism	13
Fake news simulated performance: gazing and performing to reinforce negative destination stereotypes	13
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations	13
UNESCO biosphere zoning, local management, and empowerment in community-based tourism: lessons from Guatemala	13
Island tourism: past, present, and prospects	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
Beyond social innovation to sustainable livelihoods in tourism	12
Authenticity and spectrality of space heritage: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan	12
Crafting destination stories: enacting and sharing cultural memory for Indigenous tourism	11
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail	11
25 years of tourist tracking: a geographical perspective	11
Singular times and multiple temporalities of the future in tourism planning	11
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism	11
“A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit	11
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo-managing states	10
A comparison of tourism-related stressors experienced by residents of three island destinations	10
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: dual-path knowledge co-production and bridging organizations	10
Path creation for an electricity transition in South African tourism	10
The state, political trigger events and path creation in tourism destination in Ethiopia	9
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres?	9
Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice	9
Commemoration and commodification: slavery heritage, Black travel and the #YearofReturn2019 in Ghana	9
Pragmatic arguments for decolonising tourism praxis in Africa	9
‘I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism	9
Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality’	9
Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones	8
Do tourists want sustainability transitions? Visitor attitudes to destination trajectories during COVID-19	8
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother	8
Honoring a legend: Dr. Valene L. Smith	8
Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations	8
Geographic mobility and socially segmented attachment of returnees in Chinese ethnic tourism	8
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection	8
Seasonality of rural tourism: a comparative analysis of 33 cities in China	8
Tourists’ perception of distance: a thematic review and conceptual framework	8
Feminist tourism geographies as reflected in their emergent histories	8
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	8
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies	8