Analysis of Articles Examining the Effects of Tourism on Regional Development with Bibliometric Analysis

Regional development is defined as the whole of the studies aiming to increase the welfare level of a region by considering its socio-economic status. Regional development has benefits such as providing employment opportunities in a destination with touristic value, eliminating income imbalances, helping national development, providing foreign exchange inflows to the country and having an impact on the balance of payments. The main purpose of the study is to analyze national and international articles on tourism between 2010 and 2023 with the subject of regional development in line with certain parameters. The study was theoretically designed and bibliometric analysis was applied. A total of 126 studies were reached. As a result of the study, it was concluded that national articles are less in number compared to international articles, and that the subject of regional development and tourism has increased at a certain rate, although not periodically. In the analyzed studies, economic development, economic impact, sustainable tourism, sustainable regional development and tourism development issues came to the fore. This implies that economic, sustainable and tourism-oriented activities lie at the basis of expectations from studies on regional development and tourism.