Scientific literature on information and communication technologies in ecotourism.

The objective of this article is to identify the scientific production in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the contribution and promotion of nature tourism. Its methodological development was built from a work of scientific bibliometric analysis under an exploratory-quantitative character, allowing the integration and application of statistical processes expressed from the technological tools used such as VosViewer, SciMat, and Bibliometrix of R. The indicators used emphasized academic activities (publications, dispersion, collaboration) and impact at the level of citation, co-citation, and impact factor, The scientific production extracted for the search period between 2011 and the first semester of 2020 was 356 documents. As a result, the analysis and graphs of the evolution of publications, geographical origin, and types of documents were obtained, as well as the themes and trends associated with technologies and the analysis of journals, authors, citations, and influential keywords, the large number of tourism proposals implemented in the world on natural environments and supported with digital technologies for their development, This reality is reflected in the documents generated in the last five years, where 212 articles in 129 journals have reflected this evolution. To conclude with a quantitative analysis of each of the categories studied and the examination of the inclusion of ICT in nature tourism, based on the publications in the Scopus database. The areas in which the publications are located are focused on environmental, social, agricultural, ICT, and biological sciences, where the context of the publications is based on the new tourism alternatives that seek the protection of natural resources, the low impact on the environment, the monitoring of sites and tourists and the control of the spaces in which this economic activity is carried out, supporting many countries, especially those of the emerging economies. A total of 216 journals were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]