1. Research Frontiers and Visualization Analysis of Sports Tourism Based on CiteSpace.
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MA Lina and YE Sijing
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SPORTS tourism ,TOURISM ,SPORTS administration ,TOURISM websites ,SPORTS business ,SPORTS marketing - Abstract
By using literature content analysis method, the knowledge map was made via CiteSpace software, with the core literature of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) as the data source, and the following conclusions were drawn. (1) The development course of sports tourism research can be divided roughly into 4 stages: initial germination stage, preliminary development stage, high-speed development stage and stable development stage. (2) The National Social Science Foundation, the Sports Research Project of the State General Administration of Sport, and the Soft Science Research Plan of Henan Province were the main sources of funds for sports tourism research, while the national and provincial funds were dominant. (3) Among the published journals of sports tourism, the publication types had unbalanced distribution, with more literatures published in sports journals and less in tourism journals. (4) In terms of authors of sports tourism articles, there were mainly three core teams led by Yu Sumei, Liu Shaoying and Lu Yuanzhao. Sports Tourism Market Characteristics and Product Development written by scholar Wang Degen had the strongest intensity of academic influence with the highest cited frequency. (5) In terms of research institutions of sports tourism, Henan University was an important institution for publishing sports tourism literature, but academic research links on sports tourism among institutions had not been established. (6) At present, the key research directions of sports tourism include sports tourism economy, sports tourism development, sports tourism industry development, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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