Abstract:

Bibliometric research offers researchers a variety of benefits in order to study the studies in the field and to understand in which direction the trends evolve. The aim of this study is to make a bibliometric map of the research on the relationship between tourism and festivals. The documents contained in the Web of Science database were scaned for this purpose between 1975-2020. VOSviewer is used to scan the database. The survey results in 710 studies that study the relationship between tourism and festival. These studies have been evaluated in the year, source magazine, country, reference, keyword and author topic titles. According to the findings obtained, there is an increasing trend in the number of works that study the relationship between tourism and festival. The study was published in the Tourism Management magazine, and the highest-reference researcher was Melville Saayman. The United States is considered the country where the most studies have been done and the most reference studies have been done. Tourism, festivals, events and pleasure are the key words that stand out. Tourism and festival concepts have also been studied by addressing keywords, sources and references with network graphics created across countries.

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