Bibliometric Analysis on Internet of Things (IoT) and Tourism Industry: A Study Based on Scopus Database

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.