Intl Conference on Economics, Finance & Business, Prague

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES ON CHILD-FRIENDLY TOURISM WITH SCIENCE MAPPING TECHNIQUE

KÜBRA CELİLOĞLU AYLAN

Abstract:

Child-friendly tourism, which is considered an important component of sustainable tourism; It is defined as a type of tourism that meets the needs of families with children, where touristic environments are created where children can spend time in a healthy and safe way, away from violence, where they can play, learn, increase their creativity, improve themselves, and receive love and respect. This study evaluates the intellectual structure of child-friendly tourism by analyzing articles on child-friendly tourism with bibliometrics. Science mapping technique, is one of bibliometric analysis methods and has different stages such as data acquisition, preprocessing, net extraction, normalization, mapping, analysis, and visualization, was used. 15 articles with child-friendly tourism from Scopus database were chosen and analyzed to achieve this aim The results reveal that the time of first article was published, the most productive and cited journals, the most productive authors and affiliations, the most frequently used keywords, the most collaborative countries in publishing articles on chil-friendly tourism. The results of the study could be useful for tourism researchers to understand the main lines of the child-friendly tourism and what the trends are, by presenting a panoramic view of the articles written in the field from a broad perspective.

Keywords: Science mapping technique, Bibliometric analysis, Child-friendly tourism, Scopus.