A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF “SMART TOURISM” IN DIFFERENT DATABASES
Erkan Akgöza, Refika Atalaya
a Faculty of Tourism, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, eakgoz@selcuk.edu.tr
Abstract
The acceleration in technology has led to the development of new concepts in the tourism sector as in other sectors. The concept of smart tourism is one of the concepts that has started to take place more and more in both domestic and foreign literature with this technological process. Smart tourism consists of a smart experience, smart business environment and smart destination components. Smart tourism is also defined as all information systems that enable efficient operation, effective decision-making and sustainability by combining data obtained from different stakeholders. The main purpose of the current study is to effectively recognize the concept of smart tourism and to provide a holistic perspective to researchers who will work on this subject. In line with these objectives, the concept of “smart tourism” was scanned in the list of journals in ScienceDirect, Scopus and TR index databases between 2015 and 2023. In the related journals, both “smart tourism” and “smart tourism” concepts were bibliometrically analyzed in terms of title, abstract and keywords. In line with the data obtained, the parameters of “journal name”, “database”, “publication year”, “publication type”, “subject area”, “keywords”, “number of authors”, “number of citations” and “number of sources” were used. The data obtained within the scope of the research were recorded electronically and evaluated. Tables suitable for the purpose of the study were prepared, analyzed and interpreted.
Keywords: smart tourism, TR index, ScienceDirect, Scopus, bibliometrics
JEL Classification: L83, Z32, O33
To be cited as: Akgöz, E. and Atalay, R. (2024) A bibliometric analysis of the concept of “smart tourism” in different databases. International Journal of Management Courses, 26(3), pp. 102-108.