Scientific Coverage in Community-Based Tourism: Sustainable Tourism and Strategy for Social Development

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In the last decades in developing countries, the tourism sector has been immersed in an intense process of strengthening the participation of local communities through the so-called community tourism initiatives, whose main objective is to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of host communities, ensuring the subsistence of traditional culture. Its growing momentum as a means for sustainable tourism and a strategy for social development has generated a large amount of academic literature, and it is necessary to analyze its presence in the main multidisciplinary databases. Thus, the main purpose of our article is to show the current state of scientific production on community tourism through a bibliometric comparative study of the documents indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases, dealing with aspects such as their coverage, correlation between both bases, overlapping of documents and journals, growth, dispersion or concentration of articles, among others. For this purpose, and by means of an advanced search by terms, a representative set of 115 articles in WoS and 185 in Scopus were selected, with the time limit set in 2017. These form the ad-hoc basis of the analysis. In view of the results, it is concluded that, although WoS and Scopus databases differ in terms of scope, volume of data, and coverage policies, both information systems are complementary but not exclusive. Although the documents and the results of their analysis are in many aspects similar, Scopus has a better coverage in the specific area of community tourism due to collecting a greater number of articles, journals and signatures, and its articles receiving a greater number of citations.
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Authors Álvarez-García, José;Durán-Sánchez, Amador;Río-Rama, María de la Cruz del;
Journal sustainability
Year 2018
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Technology (General) Technology environmental effects of industries and plants renewable energy sources environmental sciences geography (general) sports social sciences (general) social sciences sports medicine coverage bibliometric study scopus wos overlapenvironmental effects of industries and plantsrenewable energy sourcesenvironmental sciences

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