Emerging Trends and Insights in Homestay Tourism: Quantitative Analysis and Future Agenda
Keywords:
Homestay, Tourism development, Bibliometric Analysis, Science Mapping and VOSviewerAbstract
Homestay tourism plays a significant role as an alternative accommodation that supports community-based development. The study provides a comprehensive bibliometric assessment of 397 publications on homestay tourism extracted from the Scopus database. Performance indicators are used to highlight publication trends, leading authors, countries, and journals. Science mapping helps to identify the intellectual and thematic structure. The findings indicate a steady rise in homestay-related publications, strongly contributed by Asian countries and periodicals focusing on sustainability, intercultural learning, and destination management. Prominent themes include tourism development, rural and community-based tourism, sustainability, eco-tourism, and tourist behaviour, alongside newer interests in resilience and livelihood outcomes. The study shows how homestay research has evolved and identifies areas where further theoretical development and comparative work are required to support the sustainable expansion of homestay tourism.
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