Zhang Yunlai, Wang Lixin, Zheng Yaomin, Tian Fang
School of International Economics and Management, Beijing Technology and Business University, No. 33, Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China.
Institute for Culture and Tourism Development, Beijing Technology and Business University, No. 33, Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048, China.
Heliyon. 2023 Jun 9;9(6):e17109. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17109. eCollection 2023 Jun.
This study aims to identify hot spots, research limitations and future research directions in tourism environmental impact assessment (TEIA). We analyzed studies from the core database of Web of Science (WoS) based on their coauthorship, keyword co-occurrence and timeline with VOSviewer and CiteSpace. It was found that China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Spain are the major contributors to TEIA, and relatively stable cooperative groups have been formed among the authors. Research hotspots in the past 20 years mainly include: the impact of tourism activities in different tourist destinations on the environment, the approaches to assess the impact of tourism on the environment, and strategies on reducing the negative impact of tourism on the environment. We also found TEIA deficiency in the following five aspects: 1) insufficient studies on macro decision-making; 2) insufficient dynamic interaction analysis; 3) insufficient tourism heat footprint research; 4) insufficient studies on the positive effects of tourism on the environment; and 5) insufficient interdisciplinary innovation. Based on the findings, we suggest that 1) further studies be conducted on tourism activity type, time scale, macro pattern, environmental process and policy effect of tourism impact assessment with more variables and factors considered; 2) the impact of different types of tourism on each subsystem of the environment and the paths of the interaction among subsystems be explored from the perspective of system governance; 3) the study of thermal footprint generated by tourism activities be given more attention, especially large-scale tourism activities; 4) the positive impact of tourism activities on the ecological environment be studied, especially ecotourism; 5) the applicability of TEIA evaluation results be increased by means of interdisciplinary methods such as big data analysis.
本研究旨在识别旅游环境影响评估（TEIA）中的热点、研究局限及未来研究方向。我们使用VOSviewer和CiteSpace，基于共同作者、关键词共现及时间线，对来自科学网（WoS）核心数据库的研究进行了分析。研究发现，中国、美国、英国、澳大利亚和西班牙是TEIA的主要贡献国，作者之间已形成相对稳定的合作群体。过去20年的研究热点主要包括：不同旅游目的地的旅游活动对环境的影响、评估旅游对环境影响的方法以及减少旅游对环境负面影响的策略。我们还发现TEIA在以下五个方面存在不足：1）宏观决策研究不足；2）动态相互作用分析不足；3）旅游热足迹研究不足；4）旅游对环境的积极影响研究不足；5）跨学科创新不足。基于研究结果，我们建议：1）对旅游影响评估的旅游活动类型、时间尺度、宏观模式、环境过程和政策效果进行进一步研究，考虑更多变量和因素；2）从系统治理的角度探索不同类型旅游对环境各子系统的影响以及子系统间相互作用的路径；3）更多关注旅游活动产生的热足迹研究，尤其是大规模旅游活动；4）研究旅游活动对生态环境的积极影响，尤其是生态旅游；5）通过大数据分析等跨学科方法提高TEIA评估结果的适用性。
