Art Integration in Tourism: Exploring Its Role in Learning Skills Enhancement and Tourism Development
Keywords:
Tourism, Art Integration, Learning skills, Tourism DevelopmentAbstract
This bibliometric review of the study of Art Meets Tourism: A Study on Art Integration, Learning Skills, and Tourism Development synthesizes an extensive and varied research area, comprising 1,686 publications from 945 sources and exhibiting an Mean annual growth rate of 18.42. The research corpus is relatively new, with a mean age of 4.69 years, and achieves high citation rates, averaging 12.65 citations per paper. Research topics vary broadly, spanning cultural tourism, education, sustainability, and heritage conservation. In terms of authorship, there is considerable co-authorship: 21.23% of this work is an international cooperation, with a diverse geographical base headed by the USA, China, Australia, and the UK. Research journals like Sustainability (Switzerland), Geoheritage, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism point to a solid link with sustainability concerns, while more educationally oriented journals indicate that there is a rising importance on learning skills within field of tourism. The analysis of keywords centers on tourism, a topic inextricably linked to art, cultural heritage, and geotourism and the sector's shift toward creative, competency-building, and socially conscious types of tourism. Strong evidence also demonstrates that the integration of art enhances the cultural capital of destinations, strengthens sustainable branding, and provides for experiential learning, making this an important confluence of cultural policy, learning, and tourism innovation.
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