A View on Research Panorama of Spiritual Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Srivastava, Khusboo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34623/g0gp-6v38

Spiritual tourism infuses mindfulness and spirituality into the fabric of travel. The main objective of this research is to pinpoint the status quo on the research panorama of spiritual tourism. Furthermore, this study assesses how farspirituality-based research has progressed in tourism. This study employs a bibliometric approach to analyze 174 research papers extracted from the Scopus database from the year 2005 to 2022. The research molded the obtainedinformational structure in the form of publication years, publication sources, prolific authors and their locations, the main keywords, and most cited research papers. Additionally, co-authorship, inter-country co-authorship, andkeywords co-occurrences network maps in the field of research on spiritual tourism were created with the aid of VOSviewer software. It has been found that spiritual tourism is an attracting and growing topic for researchersworking in the tourism sector. The most cited paper is “Spiritual journey to Hajj: Australian and Pakistani experience and expectations” (Haq & Jackson, 2009) with 66 citations. The most productive author is Farooq Haq from CanadianUniversity Dubai. Canadian University, Dubai, and Central Queensland University, Australia, generated the most papers. The “International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage” (n=20) published the most spiritual tourism-themedresearch papers.