Sustainable Tourism Management: A Systematic Review With Bibliographic Analysis

This research examines sustainable tourism management using bibliometric analysis. This study identifies the complex dynamics of organizational psychology by clarifying essential themes that influence sustainable tourism management. As a global industry, tourism has a profound impact on the planet and its inhabitants; therefore, this powerful sector must be governed by sustainability principles. The analysis provides an overview of the current state of sustainable tourism management, including the most impactful authors, journals, universities, and countries, and tracks its historical development. Data were obtained from the widely used social science database, Web of Science (WOS), and processed using the open-source program R. The results were presented through performance analysis and scientific mapping, the core components of bibliometric analysis. This textual analysis highlighted significant topics, prolific authors, influential sources, and prevalent phrases. The paper discusses the field’s contributions and consequences, concluding with future research directions and limitations. A complete collection of pertinent literature was acquired from the Web of Science database, initially yielding 173 documents. The inclusion criteria selected only ‘articles’ from the following research areas: ‘hospitality leisure sport tourism’, ‘management’, ‘green sustainable science technology’, and ‘social science interdisciplinary’ studies. Furthermore, only documents from ‘SSCI’ and ‘ESCI’ journals, written in ‘English’, were included, resulting in a final collection of 82 documents. This investigation produced significant findings regarding sustainable tourism management and offered valuable insights for future scholarly research. Sustainable tourism management studies have increased since 2015, with the journal Sustainability publishing the most articles. The nine most prolific writers include Dredge D. and Stoeckl N. The most productive universities are James Cook University, Walailak University, and the University of Patras, with Spain being the most productive country. Sustainable tourism is the most frequently used term, and the keyword co-occurrence network shows that it forms four distinct clusters. As a result, businesses can leverage the existing literature to develop and improve their sustainable tourism management practices. Effective sustainable tourism management requires adherence to ECON-ESG (Economic, Environmental, Social, Governance) elements and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).