DISCOVERING THE INNOVATION LANDSCAPE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN TOURISM INDUSTRY

It is critical to understand the innovation landscape to promote tourism industry research and development. In this study, we employed a knowledge domain visualization approach by CiteSpaceto to discover the salient thematic and citation structure and emerging trends of the domain of tourism knowledge management. The domain gets increasingly attention in China and the world due to the rising of smart tourism and service dominant logic. We collected bibliographic records and citation information of core literature of tourism knowledge management in databases of Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index from Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Thematic patterns and emerging research trends were revealed by analyses of keyword co-occurrence network and hotspots evolution map. Key papers and influential scholars were identified by analyses of document co-citation network and core author network. Theoretical and practical implications were also discussed.