A scientometric review of tourism community resilience research: a CiteSpace-based visualisation

In the context of a complex and ever-changing global environment, enhancing community resilience has emerged as a crucial pathway for promoting sustainable development. Over the past 25 years, research on tourism community resilience has yielded a wealth of findings and expanded into diverse fields. But there isn’t yet a single research framework, so all existing studies need to be carefully looked over and judged to improve the theories and methods of tourism community resilience. This study utilises data from the Web of Science Core Collection (2000–2024) and applies methods such as collaborative analysis, co-citation analysis, and CiteSpace burst detection analysis to provide a holistic review of research in this field. Four major research themes were identified: (1) Influencing factors of tourism community resilience. (2) Ecological environment and disaster recovery in tourism communities. (3) Research methodology in tourism community resilience. (4) Cross-disciplinary research on tourism community resilience. Additionally, this study delineates potential future research directions including interdisciplinary cooperation of tourism community resilience, contextualised analysis, digital communities, and cross-community networks. This study provides valuable insights for researchers, offering a clear understanding of the current landscape and charting future research directions for the advancement of tourism community resilience research.