Abstract:
The systematization of scientific expositions and methodology for exploring the
Internet of Things (IoT) and tourism penetration every day reveals that
researchers have made significant contributions to enhance this field of study.
This article outlines the scholarly discussion on altering Tourism industry
procedures in the face of the rapid rise of the Internet of Things. The primary
goal of this research is to evaluate the structure and functions of scholarly
papers related to the concerns of IoT development from the perspective of the
tourism industry. The research idea is an analysis backdrop on exploring the
trend in the interaction between the IoT and tourism business and published in
the reputable database Scopus till 2021. The collection of scholarly papers
indexed in the Scopus database by the keywords "Internet of Things" and
"Tourism" serves as the research object. As of December 17, 2021, a total of
340 relevant publications surfaced in Scopus Database that matched the
search criteria. Consequently, only 26 articles, review papers, conference
papers, and book chapters were appropriate to be included in the next step.
The article titles, abstracts, and keywords were used to do the publishing
search. This analysis used data released in many topic areas from 2013 to
2021. VOSviewer and Scopus software were used to visualize the chosen
papers. Thus, the bibliometric analysis enabled the illustration of the dynamic
of publishing activity, highlighting the most impactful articles and credible
journals, visualizing keyword co-occurrences in papers, co-authorship
between nations, and the trend of the publication year by year.
