A Review of Global Winter Tourism Research in the Web of Science (WoS) Database between 1988-2020: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to reveal the retrospective nature of winter tourism investigations in social sciences, determine global trends sophisticatedly, and become a potential guide for future researches. In this respect, With the VOSviewer program, 278 studies on winter tourism in the Web of Science (WOS) database between 1988 and 2020 were analyzed bibliometrically. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the most productive countries in winter tourism are Austria, the USA, and Norway respectively and Europe is the leading region in this area. Likewise, it was also concluded that the most co-occurrence keyword is climate change. The paper is limited only to winter tourism studies in the field of Social Sciences between 1988 and 2020 from the WOS database. It is thought that the research will make significant contributions to researchers, local governments, destination policymakers and hotel managers.