TY - JOUR
T1 - Intellectual connections in food tourism literature
T2 - A co-citation approach
AU - Okumus, Bendegul
AU - Mehraliyev, Fuad
AU - Ma, Forest
AU - Köseoglu, Mehmet Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
International Business and Governance was established with the substantial support of a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/IDS 16/ 17), for its support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - This study critically examines, using a co-citation approach, the evolution of food and culinary tourism research in the field of hospitality and tourism (H&T) from 1976 to 2019. A bibliometric study of publications indexed in the top 16 H&T journal databases was conducted, and a total of 523 food and culinary tourism-related documents were identified and analyzed. The research findings revealed that food and culinary tourism publication numbers in H&T journals increased after 1999 yet somehow decreased after 2017. In terms of methodological approaches and data analysis, behavioral studies frequently used structural equation modeling, while advanced methodological approaches in other domains were deemed insufficient. The study findings further reveal that most of the influential works are relatively old and that no groundbreaking or game-changing studies have occurred in recent years in food and culinary tourism research.
AB - This study critically examines, using a co-citation approach, the evolution of food and culinary tourism research in the field of hospitality and tourism (H&T) from 1976 to 2019. A bibliometric study of publications indexed in the top 16 H&T journal databases was conducted, and a total of 523 food and culinary tourism-related documents were identified and analyzed. The research findings revealed that food and culinary tourism publication numbers in H&T journals increased after 1999 yet somehow decreased after 2017. In terms of methodological approaches and data analysis, behavioral studies frequently used structural equation modeling, while advanced methodological approaches in other domains were deemed insufficient. The study findings further reveal that most of the influential works are relatively old and that no groundbreaking or game-changing studies have occurred in recent years in food and culinary tourism research.
KW - bibliometric analysis
KW - co-citation approach
KW - food tourism
KW - hospitality and food
KW - tourism and hospitality journals
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U2 - 10.1002/jtr.2409
DO - 10.1002/jtr.2409
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089977243
SN - 1099-2340
VL - 23
SP - 220
EP - 237
JO - International Journal of Tourism Research
JF - International Journal of Tourism Research
IS - 2
ER -