Abstract:

The main objective of this research is to identify the way the ever-growing entrepreneurship phenomenon is addressed in the national tourism area, to identify the current characteristics of the studies and to reveal the fields of work needed to be focused on the subject. It is also intended to contribute to the field by aggregating national-scale studies on the subject of entrepreneurship research which are addressed within the framework of the tourism discipline. From this point; from 1988 to 2019, it has reached 96 works published on a national scale, including tourism and entrepreneurship keywords, included in the data bases of Google Academic, ULAKBIM and YÖK National Thesis Center. These works were studied by bibliometric analysis according to the research purpose. As a result, the number of tourism-entrepreneurship studies has increased since 2010; the entrepreneurial characteristics, women's entrepreneurship and domestic entrepreneurship issues are more frequently included, and other entrepreneurship issues are not able to find enough place in the national sphere. It is believed that this study will be a roadmap for future research by providing an overview of the national area in the framework of publications that reveal the connection between entrepreneurship and tourism.

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