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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. 10.4% 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%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cruise Tourism Development and Management

Which countries lead Cruise Tourism Development and Management research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (584 and 459 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 584 works
  2. 2 China 459 works
  3. 3 Spain 199 works
  4. 4 United States 192 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 172 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 153 works
  7. 7 India 149 works
  8. 8 Brazil 144 works
  9. 9 Philippines 142 works
  10. 10 Portugal 127 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: 25.1%China: 19.8%Spain: 8.6%United States: 8.3%6 others listed: 38.2%25%largest
Indonesia584 · 25.1%China459 · 19.8%Spain199 · 8.6%United States192 · 8.3%6 others listed887 · 38.2%

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

Which institutions lead Cruise Tourism Development and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Cruise Tourism Development and Management research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Rijeka.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 25 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  3. 3 University of RijekaCroatia 24 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 21 works
  5. 5 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 19 works
  7. 7 University of ZagrebCroatia 18 works
  8. 8 College of TourismBulgaria 16 works
  9. 9 University of Novi SadSerbia 15 works
  10. 10 University of AlgarvePortugal 14 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 and Mostafa Qorbani.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Mostafa Qorbani Iran 184k citations

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

What are the most cited papers in Cruise Tourism Development and Management?

The most cited paper in Cruise Tourism Development and Management is "THE CONCEPT OF A TOURIST AREA CYCLE OF EVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES" (R.W. BUTLER, 1980), with 4,524 citations. Next come "A model of destination image formation" (3,522) and "Marketing the competitive destination of the future" (3,412).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE CONCEPT OF A TOURIST AREA CYCLE OF EVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES R.W. BUTLER · Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes Mar 1980 4,524
2 A model of destination image formation Şeyhmus Baloğlu, Ken W. McCleary · Annals of Tourism Research Oct 1999 3,522
3 Marketing the competitive destination of the future Dimitrios Buhalis · Tourism Management Feb 2000 3,412
4 Factors influencing destination image Asunción Beerli Palacio, Josefa D. Martín · Annals of Tourism Research Open access 8 Jun 2004 2,463
5 Destination Competitiveness: Determinants and Indicators Larry Dwyer, Chulwon Kim · Current Issues in Tourism Oct 2003 1,926
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cruise Tourism Development and Management research done?

The largest centres of Cruise Tourism Development and Management research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 94 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 47 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 44 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 42 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 34 works
  7. 7 BangkokThailand 33 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 32 works
  9. 9 BelgradeSerbia 31 works
  10. 10 DenpasarIndonesia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RijekaHR · 25.2 works39×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cruise Tourism Development and Management than the world average.

See Cruise Tourism Development and Management on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shanghai Maritime University and Universiti Teknologi MARA 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 19.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Griffith UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Shanghai Maritime Un…Universiti Teknologi…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.128.1%5.7×18 -30.1%
2Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 62.717.3%22.6×21 +64.2%
3Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 59.74.0%8.7×25 +83.3%
4Griffith UniversityAustralia 58.740.6%6.0×10 -15.8%
5University of AlgarvePortugal 55.816.2%35.4×14 +11.5%
6Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 55.819.7%9.6×13 +59.0%
7Universidad de MálagaSpain 53.515.8%11.7×14 +0.2%
8College of TourismBulgaria 53.46.6%114.7×16 +107.1%
9University of Novi SadSerbia 52.426.6%12.7×15 -32.4%
10University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 51.517.2%5.5×13 -25.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cruise Tourism Development and Management, country by country

Is Cruise Tourism Development and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cruise Tourism Development and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cruise Tourism Development and Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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