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Trends And Patterns In Sustainable Tourism Research: A 25-Year Bibliometric Analysis, Lisa Ruhanen, Betty Weiler, Brent D. Moyle, Char-Lee J. Mclennan

Betty Weiler

In the quarter of a century since the release of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable tourism has emerged as the dominant paradigm in tourism development. However, the debate, discourse, and criticism of this subfield of tourism research continues. To address such concerns the purpose of this paper is to explore trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research over the past 25 years. A 25-year bibliometric analysis was conducted for the four highest ranked journals in the tourism field. Results indicate that the growth in sustainable tourism research has been remarkable, with 492 papers published in these four journals and almost …