Abstract:

The aim of this study is to present a holistic perspective on the subject by identifying the studies in the tourism literature on the Covid-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world and causes serious changes in every field. For this purpose, 273 articles on the concept of tourism and Covid-19 published in the Scopus database between 2019 and 2021 were analysed using the bibliometric analysis method. The findings of the study were evaluated through citation analysis, co-citation analysis, co-authorship analysis, bibliographic coupling analysis, and co-occurrence analysis. VOSviewer software was used in the analysis of the obtained data. According to the findings, it was determined that the USA and China were the countries that contributed the most to the literature. In addition, the bibliometric analysis results provide important information about the most cited studies and authors on the subject of Covid-19 in the tourism literature, the countries with which the authors have published the most, common citation analysis and the most used keywords. The present study enables the identification of major research themes in the Covid-19 tourism literature and contributes to the development of future research directions.

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