WANG Xin1,4, GAO Nan4, BAI Kai1,2,3*
(1 School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, 2 Shaanxi Tourism Information Engineering Laboratory, 3 Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Tourism Informatics, Xi′an 710119, Shaanxi, China;4 College of Tourism Management, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics,Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, China)
Abstract:
Based on the CitespaceⅢ software, a quantitative analysis of heritage tourism research at home and abroad is made. It found heritage tourism research at the beginning of the 21st century developed rapidly, presenting the trend of expanding from developed countries to emerging economies with strong permeability for subjects, dispersed journals, and a group of high level authors wasn′t established. The research hotspots in heritage tourism at home and abroad mainly focus on basic issues of heritage resorts, heritage tourists, heritage-related interest groups and heritage tourism activities. The research of heritage tourists is the hottest in recent years. The study of heritage tourism has a diachronic trend.Tourism presentation and utilization is one of the important ways in which human beings protect their heritage.According to the above conclusions, the life course and representation of the heritage and the “Chinese” heritage management model should be paid sufficient attention in the future to provide scientific references for the sustainable development of Chinese heritage tourism.
KeyWords:
heritage tourism; knowledge map; bibliometrics
