La investigación española en turismo con impacto internacional (1997-2011). Una perspectiva desde la economía y la dirección de la empresa

The relevance of tourism for the economy and development in Spain has motivated academic research on the tourist sector. Our study analyzes the international impact of this scholarship and provides researchers connected to the economy and business management with an examination of the main topics researched in this discipline. To do so, we perform a bibliometric study of Spanish scholarship from 1997 to 2011 in the 26 most important international journals on tourism and hospitality. We find that tourism scholars have made a greater than average contribution to economics and business, as well as to the total of scholarly disciplines. Economics, marketing, and business administration are the areas with the greatest weight, and marketing and business administration provide promising lines of research that can contribute to increasing the number of studies of tourism.