Cultural heritage sports tourism design opportunities: a bibliometric analysis

The development of cultural heritage sports tourism requires collaboration from the government, communities around cultural heritage, academics, and stakeholders. The implementation of cultural heritage sports tourism has been carried out by many researchers around the world. This research was conducted to provide a review of cultural heritage tourism that has been carried out and to find out future research gaps related to cultural heritage sports tourism. Harzing's publish or perish software, Mendeley Desktop, and VosViewer were used to sort and identify gaps in this research. A total of 1069 articles from 2014 to 2024 from the Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed databases were reviewed according to a predetermined review. The review included cluster information, impact factors, types of activities, research findings, and gaps for future research. The results showed that there were eight cluster groups in the resulting analysis with seven keywords that had a high impact factor. The keywords that have high impact factors are revisiting intention, digitalization, game-based learning, location-based applications, surveys, circular economy, and immersive technologies. The findings in this study are that the development of cultural heritage attractions needs to consider visitor expectations, the content presented, government involvement, and promotion. The development of cultural heritage sports tourism has great potential. Keywords: bibliometric analysis, sport tourism, cultural heritage, future research