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By visualizing bibliometric data, this work tries to describe the scholarly landscape of the tourism research field on national parks and protected areas. Data of 930 specific documents published between 1996 and 2020 were collected from Web of Science, using VOSviewer and CiteSpace to employ collaboration analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis. The results show that national parks and protected areas have been good study samples for 12 tourism forms like wildlife tourism, community-based tourism, etc. The discussions of this field focus on environment conservation, visitor experience, community development, and climate change, and the best solutions to achieve the state of the art of them are provided. It was examined that 9 topics like recreation and outdoor recreation, resilience, etc. are the key hotspots. World Tourism Oganization should take national parks and protected areas as the KPI to assess the sustainable development of each country since the importance disgussed in this paper. There should be greater communication among the scholars and practitioners from different fields or departments due to the cross-diciplines social networks. This research provides clear empirical evidence for literature reviews from diverse perspectives, as well as for improving national park and protected area development and research.

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Acknowledgements

This paper was supported by the funds of:

1. Study on measurement of development level of beautiful China and the influence on quality and quantity change of inbound tourism flow, supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, No. 19BJY207;

2. Innovation Project of Guangdong Polyethnic College, P. R. China (to Donghui Lu), No. 2019GKJSK001;

3. Philosophy and Social Science Federation Program of Zhaoqing, P. R. China (to Donghui Lu), No. 19ZC-42;

4. Study on the Mutual Benefit and Cooperation Mechanism of Cruise Tourism Promoting the Coordinated Development of Tourism in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, supported by Guangzhou Philosophy and Social Science Project, China, 2018, No. 2018GZYB23;

5. Graduate Education Innovation Program “Exploring Research on the Teaching Reform of International Education for Graduate Students Majoring in Tourism Management”, supported by Department of Education of Guangdong Province, China, 2017, No. 2017JGXM-ZD03;

6. Graduate English Course “Study comparatively between Chinese and international hospitality industry”, supported by South China University of Technology, 2018.

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    Donghui Lu

  2. Tourism Management Department, Management School of Jinan University, 601 West Huangpu Avenue, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoyu Wang

  3. Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoyu Wang

  4. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Hongxi Zhang

  5. Guizhou Minzu Unversity, Guiyang, Guizhou, People’s Republic of China

    Hongxi Zhang

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  4. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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Lu, D., Wang, X., Zhang, H. (2022). Tourism Research on National Parks and Protected Areas. In: Luo, Y., Zhang, H., Jiang, J., Bi, D., Chu, Y. (eds) Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1661-8_14

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