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Literature review of wine tourism research: Bibliometric analysis (1984–2014)

Abstract:

Economy of different regions of our planet is based on constantly developing touristic industry, and enotourism has been recently added to its supply. Enotourism, or wine tourism, combines wine industry and tourism. The aim of this study is to show an actual situation of written articles and studies about wine tourism, to know this way the status of the issue, and to fi nd out who, what, where and how has studied about this topic. A bibliometric analysis of articles forming part of the Scopus database has been carried out. This database belongs to the Elsevier editorial group that provides a general view of the world scientifi c production. As a result, 166 articles, papers and chapters that speak about the importance of enotourism were found. The fi rst article was published in 1984, but only at the end of the fi rst decade of the twenty-first century the studies on enotourism started to be important in the academic literature. As a conclusion, we can say that about one half of all existing literature on enotourism was written in Australia or the USA, and that a tool used for its spreading was a touristic review. However, due to the multidisciplinary nature of the industry, there are articles about enotourism in different kinds of scientifi c journals.