The cruise industry is one of the most active and economically beneficial sectors in the global tourism and hospitality industry. A reasonable and scientific route layout is essential to the sustainable and healthy development of the cruise industry. Based on the data of 4979 cruise routes around...

In the era of big data, network text analysis has become an important means of studying tourists' travel preferences. This study takes Wuyuan County as the research object, adopts network text analysis method, uses Octopus Collector to collect Wuyuan travel notes on relevant tourism websites, and...

The optimization of spatial network connections for tourism efficiency is a prerequisite for the high-quality development of the tourism economy. There is limited understanding, however, of the evolution characteristics of the spatial network structure of tourism efficiency in the extant...

Tourist arrivals and tourism revenues have been extensively studied to evaluate international tourist flows, whereas the structure and evolution of these flows have received less attention. Based on international tourist arrival data from 221 countries/regions during the period 1995-2018, this...

This study identifies the stakeholders of coastal marine tourism (CMT) and their structural patterns of relationships using theories of network structure. While the network analysis examines the relational aspects, content analysis gained through interviews and focus group discussions were used to...

This study aims to interpret the relationships among the various actors (human including residents, tourists, artists, and so on, and non-human environments including blogs, topographical features, and destination images) at a tourist site, in which those actors come together. Using the...

Tourism cooperation is an essential element for tourism development in China-ASEAN countries and has made a significant economic contribution to destinations. This study investigates the structure of tourism cooperation in China-ASEAN relations and identifies a set of factors that affect tourism...

This study explores the nexus between tourism and migration on an intra-European scale over the period 2000-2015. Complex-network analysis and gravity models were the investigation methods preferred. For each year under study, we built two country-to-country networks to map and reveal the...

Xi Jinping has set the goal of eliminating rural poverty in China by 2020. One critical component if this target is to be achieved is the effectiveness of village tourist committees, and the article reports findings from a study of social networks and their operation in five Shandong villages....

Purpose: This study aims to identify intellectual structures, emerging trends and future research opportunities via a bibliometric analysis of senior tourism research from 1998 until 2017. Design/methodology/approach: A detailed search of 700 core articles and 7,221 citations collated from...