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Cruise Tourism Development and Management

Cruise Tourism Development and Management is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 22.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of cruise tourism, including its environmental impact, economic contribution, sustainability, port management, passenger behavior, and the impact of COVID-19. It also delves into topics such as destination satisfaction, shore excursions, and marine waste management in the context of cruise tourism. The focus is primarily on the Caribbean region but extends to global perspectives on cruise tourism.

  • Cruise Tourism
  • Environmental Impact
  • Economic Contribution
  • Sustainability
  • Port Management
  • Passenger Behavior
  • COVID-19 Impact
  • Destination Satisfaction
  • Shore Excursions
  • Marine Waste Management
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+38%
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Which countries lead Cruise Tourism Development and Management research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (531 and 391 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia 531 works
  2. 2 China 391 works
  3. 3 Spain 192 works
  4. 4 United States 176 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 160 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 146 works
  7. 7 Brazil 137 works
  8. 8 India 136 works
  9. 9 Philippines 131 works
  10. 10 Portugal 120 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 25.0%China: 18.4%Spain: 9.1%United States: 8.3%6 others listed: 39.2%25%largest
Indonesia531 · 25.0%China391 · 18.4%Spain192 · 9.1%United States176 · 8.3%6 others listed830 · 39.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cruise Tourism Development and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Cruise Tourism Development and Management research, followed by University of Rijeka and Shanghai Maritime University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 24 works
  2. 2 University of RijekaCroatia 22 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 19 works
  4. 4 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 19 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 18 works
  6. 6 University of ZagrebCroatia 16 works
  7. 7 College of TourismBulgaria 16 works
  8. 8 University of Novi SadSerbia 15 works
  9. 9 Universidad de MálagaSpain 13 works
  10. 10 Universiti of Malaysia SabahMalaysia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cruise Tourism Development and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cruise Tourism Development and Management include Cyrus Cooper, C. Michael Hall and Heesup Han.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 7.2k citations
  2. 2 C. Michael Hall New Zealand 2.2k citations
  3. 3 Heesup Han South Korea 2.1k citations
  4. 4 Peter Nijkamp Netherlands 2k citations
  5. 5 Dimitrios Buhalis United Kingdom 2k citations
  6. 6 Rob Law Hong Kong 1.9k citations
  7. 7 Paresh Kumar Narayan Australia 1.8k citations
  8. 8 Erik Cohen Israel 1.2k citations
  9. 9 Doğan Gürsoy United States 1.2k citations
  10. 10 Muzaffer Uysal United States 1.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Cruise Tourism Development and Management research done?

The largest centres of Cruise Tourism Development and Management research in 2022–2025 are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Shanghai (China) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rijeka.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Jakarta Indonesia 81 works
  2. 2 Bandung Indonesia 44 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 43 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 42 works
  5. 5 Surabaya Indonesia 34 works
  6. 6 Madrid Spain 31 works
  7. 7 Bangkok Thailand 31 works
  8. 8 Belgrade Serbia 31 works
  9. 9 Makassar Indonesia 30 works
  10. 10 Denpasar Indonesia 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RijekaHR · 23.1 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cruise Tourism Development and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cruise Tourism Development and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Novi Sad, Universidad de Málaga and University of Kragujevac score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 27.77%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Novi Sad: 15, 44.7%Universidad de Málaga: 13, 42.0%University of Kragujevac: 9, 33.1%Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: 9, 29.9%Prince of Songkla University: 9, 32.0%University of Rijeka: 22, 11.6%Universiti of Malaysia Sabah: 13, 14.3%Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 18, 33.6%Universiti Malaysia Terengganu: 12, 15.1%Shanghai Maritime University: 19, 21.4%University of Novi SadUniversidad de MálagaUniversity of Kraguj…Universidad de Las P…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of Novi SadSerbia 82.244.7%12.0×15 +153.6%
2 Universidad de MálagaSpain 72.042.0%10.6×13 +65.2%
3 University of KragujevacSerbia 67.633.1%18.7×9 +648.1%
4 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSpain 65.629.9%18.8×9 +186.2%
5 Prince of Songkla UniversityThailand 63.432.0%10.4×9 +125.0%
6 University of RijekaCroatia 61.311.6%39.4×22 +79.6%
7 Universiti of Malaysia SabahMalaysia 61.314.3%16.0×13 +192.8%
8 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 60.733.6%5.1×18 +11.0%
9 Universiti Malaysia TerengganuMalaysia 59.915.1%20.7×12 +151.4%
10 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 57.321.4%19.2×19 -35.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Cruise Tourism Development and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 38% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Cruise Tourism Development and Management.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.