A SCIENTIFIC REASONING FOR INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT IN TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE

This paper aims to analize the scientific literature regarding an economic field capable of supporting growth, namely the field of tourism. The study follows a methodology for bibliometric analysis development in order to substantiate the relationship between investment and tourism infrastructure development. At first, the collection of documents is decsribed. Second, Essential aspects of authors’ and sources’ contribution to the collection of scientific documents are presented. Last, the analysis of main themes in the collection’s documents is developed and their impact in the scientific literature is substantiated. With China and the USA as the largest contributors to the collection of studied papers, the analysis shows there is a shift from demand, consumer, product, and service in tourism oriented themes to investment, performance, impact, and management models with a high frequency of occurrence in the second part of the studied period. The Conclusions section highlight the most significant obtained results and perceived limitations.