A literature review of slow tourism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14267/TURBULL.2023v23n2.5Abstract
This study aims to examine the rapidly developing slow tourism using a literature review approach. Various criteria were developed for this study: only English publications, studies published in Q1 and Q2 level journals between 2010-2021 found in Scimago and ScienceDirect databases were considered.
In the current study different parameters such as the quantity of contributing journals, the number
of authors involved in a study, the keywords, the research methodologies, the geographical context and the most used concepts were analyzed in 63 studies. According to the results obtained, the
popularity of slow tourism has increasing during the pandemic. As the link between slow tourism
and sustainability is strong, most studies have been published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
In addition to the terms slow tourism, slow city and cittaslow used during the screening, the most frequent keywords in the studies were sustainable tourism, tourist experience and the Covid19 pandemic. The authors examined the topic from several perspectives; in addition to slow tourism
and travel, behavioral intention and slow food featured most often.
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