Literary Tourism: A critical literature review

ShuJuan Wan; Hong Chen; Jian Ming Luo

ShuJuan Wan city university ofmacau
assistant professor Portuguese-Speaking Countries at City University of Macau.
Professor School of Liberal Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology

Keywords: Literary Tourism; Bibliometric review; Mixed review; Systematic literature review; VOSviewer

Abstract

After years of development, literary tourism has garnered significant attention from academia. This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach and a mixed review method, selecting 116 journal articles as the sample for review. By utilizing the bibliometric tool VOSviewer 1.6.20 software to conduct data and visual analysis on 112 articles, this study finds that: (1) Most papers employ qualitative research methods, with mixed and quantitative research methods being less frequently used. (2) Consistency theory is the most commonly used theory in the papers, followed by quasi-interaction theory. (3) The topics mainly fall into seven categories, with the hot topics being digital media, artificial intelligence, human geography, and literary trajectories.

Author Biographies

assistant professor, Portuguese-Speaking Countries at City University of Macau.

Hong Chen is an assistant professor in the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at City University of Macau. Email: hongchen@cityu.edu.mo.Her research interests include literary tourism and intercultural communication in tourism.

Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology

Jian Ming Luo is a Professor in the School of Liberal Arts ,Macau University of Science and Technology. Email: kenny.luo@connect.polyu.hk. His research interests include leisure and tourism management, urbanization, and social media.