Investigating the Scholarly Landscape: Community-Based Tourism's Effects on Quality of Life Through Bibliometric Analysis

The present study aimed to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of community-based tourism and its impact on quality of life. The Scopus database was used to find the articles and included 807 articles. Biblioshiny and VOS viewer software were used to conduct performance analysis and mapping techniques to examine the changes within the community-based tourism and quality of life literature. The results show that the ‘Sustainability (Switzerland)’ journal, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and Tourism Management are three key sources indicating a growing interest in “community-based tourism” and “quality of life.” The most frequently referenced author in terms of total citation on the topic is Uysal M, and the most referred publication is by Andereck & Nyaupane. The most frequent author keywords are "tourism" and "quality of life." Since 2017, research on tourism and quality of life has been gaining momentum, focusing on sustainability, destination management, over-tourism, rural development, and local communities. Community-based tourism activities are connected with themes such as ecotourism, quality of life, and tourist development. Following the analysis of the findings, implications, limitations, and scope for future research were discussed.