Drawing a sustainable-responsible tourism knowledge map: Analysis of cooperation network and co-authorship with a scientometric approach

Despite the interest in tourism, this issue has been influenced by concerns about natural and social environments, and in response to that, sustainable tourism has become the standard approach in tourism development. However, the debate, discourse, and in some cases criticism of this area continues. Later, responsible tourism emerged as another solution for the interaction between the environment and the tourist. The purpose of this article is to review the research conducted in the field of sustainable and responsible tourism to identify the content formed in these areas and to examine the relationship between them in order to understand the current situation and determine the direction of future research on these issues. Therefore, in this article, with the scientometric approach, articles in this field in the period 2019-1990 have been reviewed. A total of 1518 articles retrieved from the Web of Science database were analyzed using collaboration network analysis and both citation and all lexical network. Findings show that the focus of issues has changed from the concept of sustainable tourism to governance and social responsibility, and in the shadow of sustainable tourism, a new concept is being formed that addresses the issue of responsibility in the field of tourism. The result of this research explains the hot research topics and the development process of future research in this field.