Community-based tourism in East Asia: A bibliometric research note

Abstract

Community-based tourism (CBT) is part of East Asia’s tourism landscape as local communities seek to diversify their livelihoods towards tourism. However, little is known about the evolution of research surrounding CBT in the region. Through undertaking a bibliometric analysis of 401 Scopus-indexed articles, this research found that CBT practices have increasingly questioned the legitimacy and authenticity of its value to local communities. Findings also illustrated most studies centred on China, and co-authorship networks mostly occurring between research supervisors and their students. Theoretical and practical insights to advance CBT research in East Asia are proposed.

Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Community-Based Tourism: Contribution to Sustainable Development

“…The study revealed that community tourism practices question the legitimacy and authenticity of its value to local communities, which may be motivated by the lack of a theory that provides knowledge in this regard. The work proposes the need to carry out theoretical studies based on the assessment of practice, which generate knowledge and allow progress in the research and application of community tourism in East Asia [158].…”