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e-Tourism Research: A Review

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The growing importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in tourism is widely acknowledged, resulting in a growing body of research on e-Tourism. This chapter presents a comprehensive review of the status of e-Tourism research and its topics based on 752 articles collected from 14 tourism and hospitality journals, which are indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Publication trends regarding e-Tourism, contributing countries/territories, and changes in knowledge basis of scientific disciplines are presented as an overview of e-Tourism research. This is followed by a clustering approach based on bibliographic coupling (BC) similarity between each article to reveal salient topics (and subtopics) as well as their relatedness. Interpretations based on quantitative results and qualitative insights are provided. Complemented with domain knowledge and literature evidence, insights are presented to show possible future research directions, which would benefit both novice and experienced researchers and those who are considering e-Tourism as a research focus.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan, for financially supporting this research under Contract No. MOST 106-2410-H-029-070 -. Special thanks to Chaang-Iuan Ho for her helpful comments and assistance on previous drafts of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, Tunghai University, Taichung, Republic of China

    Yulan Yuan

  2. Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Republic of China

    Yuen-Hsien Tseng

  3. Graduate Institute of Sport, Leisure, and Hospitality Management, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Republic of China

    Ching Li

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  1. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Zheng Xiang

  2. Department of Tourism Studies and Geography, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

    Matthias Fuchs

  3. Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ulrike Gretzel

  4. Department of Business Informatics, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfram Höpken

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  1. Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Center for Public Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ulrike Gretzel

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Yuan, Y., Tseng, YH., Li, C. (2021). e-Tourism Research: A Review. In: Xiang, Z., Fuchs, M., Gretzel, U., Höpken, W. (eds) Handbook of e-Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05324-6_12-1

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