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Research Hotspots on Inbound Tourism from the Perspective of Globalization

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Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic presses the pause button for the global tourism industry, especially not only in the cross-border tourism industry, but also in cross-border tourism research. Using the research results from the many that have been published, this paper seeks to visualize the basic characteristics of articles and research hotspots on inbound tourism, to analyze and summarize the causes and background of these hotspots as well as their effects on the development of tourism. Based on a bibliometric analysis of 1,232 articles on the Web of Science database between 1997 and 2020, this paper shows results that (1) inbound tourism can be divided into three main research stages, among which the last four years witness the most fruitful results; (2) inbound tourism research is concentrated in a small number of countries/regions, and the research institutions and scholars in this field tend to be independent, resulting in a global academic community that has not yet formed; (3) the research hotspots could be summarized into two main directions and seven themes. Among them, studies related to COVID-19 focus on themes of macro aspects like “the influence of negative social factors on inbound tourism”, while the micro perspectives received less attention. The findings could provide insights and suggestions for inbound tourism research in the post-demic period.

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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, the National Social Science Fund of China, No. 19BJY207;

2. Study on International Tourism Attraction of National Image of Beautiful China, the Major Cultivation Project of Central Universities, South China University of Technology, No. 2020ZDPY16;

3. Study on the International Tourism Attraction of the City Image of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Double First-class University Project, South China University of Technology, No. K5201100;

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

5. The project of Guangzhou City University of technology,  Guangdong Provincial first-class major in Business Administration, the project of Guangdong Provincial Excellent Professional Program of Business Administration;

6. The projects of Guangzhou City University of Technology, No. 57-CQ190050, No. 57JY200305.

7. Research on International Education Cooperation of Tourism Management Major in Double First-class Universities, Recruit Program of Foreign Experts, Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province (Social Science), No. 2020A1414010017

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  1. Department of Tourism Management, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Wei, Kehanfei Li & Xin Xu

  2. Guangzhou City University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Wei

  3. Department of Recreation, Sport Pedagogy & Consumer Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA

    Sandy Chen

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Wei, W., Li, K., Chen, S., Xu, X. (2022). Research Hotspots on Inbound Tourism from the Perspective of Globalization. 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_15

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