OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Tourism Geographies is 5. 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
Distance decay and public transportation usage among select professional Seattle sport fans	13
Land of sky and tourists: impacts of tourism in Asheville, North Carolina	13
Author Meets Critic: Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Flooding	13
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out	12
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism: applying a regenerative conceptual framework toward swimmable urban rivers	11
‘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
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
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
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
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