A research on the evolution of destination research themes, hot topics and trends : a scientific knowledge mapping study

Abstract

Chinese domestic destination researches have accumulated a large repository of results after nearly three decades of investigation.However,it is not clear how the various themes of destination research are related to each other,and how the extant literature has contributed to the development and evolution of the destination research eco-system.Therefore,in this study,while reviewing the existing literature on destinations,2083 relevant articles published in China Social Science Index and Chinese Core Journals from 1992 to 2020 were selected from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure based on the bibliometric analysis method of scientific knowledge mapping. Destination-related research themes were systematically reviewed and analyzed.It found five primary categories of research topics: destination resources,destination image,rural tourism,destination resident impact,and visitor perception.In addition,it also found that destination research in China has gone through three stages as the nascent,booming,and self-adjusted stage.The fluctuations in destination research are driven by a combination of two forces: intrinsic concepts developments in academic research and extrinsic significant policies and events.By objectively reviewing the evolution of this body of knowledge,this study demonstrated the composition of the core body of knowledge for destination research and provides future research directions. 国内旅游目的地研究经历了近三十年的探索，已积累了丰厚的成果。 文章在回顾已有目的地研究文献综述的基础上，基于科学知识图谱的文献计量学 分析方法，从中国知网上筛选出1992—2020年发表在《中文社会科学引文索引》和 《中文核心期刊要目总览》收录期刊上的旅游目的地研究文献2083篇，系统分析了 旅游目的地研究的发展历程、研究热点和未来发展趋势。在此基础上，文章厘清了 国内旅游目的地研究的 5个重要聚类，即旅游目的地资源、旅游目的地形象、乡村 旅游、旅游地居民影响和游客感知；发现国内旅游目的地研究经历了萌芽期、蓬勃 发展期和调整期3个阶段，旅游目的地研究的波动主要受学术研究内生概念发展、 外部重大事件和政策两股力量的共同推动。文章通过客观地回顾国内旅游目的地 研究的演变过程，展示了旅游目的地研究的核心知识体系构成情况，并对未来潜在 的研究趋势进行了展望。