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Even after almost three decades of introducing competitiveness into the tourism sector, there is still a rising trend in literature on Tourism Destination Competitiveness (TDC). Though there are a few systematic and traditional reviews in the domain, there has been no study of the bibliometric variables. In the current study, scientific literature on the topic is mapped through evaluative and relational bibliometric techniques utilizing Web of Science (161 documents) and Scopus (manually selected five documents) databases to run a bibliometric analysis of 166 documents on TDC, uncovering the domain's research trend concerning authors, sources, and publications. The science mapping tool bibliometrix R-package biblioshiny and VOSviewer are used to analyze the trend of scientific publications in the area, untapped knowledge, possible future trends, and implications. The analysis is undertaken on three levels: source, author, and document, as well as three types of knowledge structures: conceptual, intellectual, and social. The bibliometric analysis consists of a descriptive evaluation of the bibliographic data frame, network analyses, and graphical visualization. As per the analysis, the competitiveness of natural/cultural destinations is rarely assessed in the global scenario. The maximum number of studies in the domain are carried out in European countries. The findings can guide researchers to focus on less developed themes/areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]