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Tourism and Internet of Things: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Production from the Scopus Database

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Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2022)

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Abstract

Tourism is a very emerging sector in any society, very important in economic terms and in job creation, today any traveler increasingly uses technological means to fully enjoy their trip.

The IoT is and increasingly will be a major contributor to smart tourism. To identify the most developed terms in the field of Tourism and Internet of Things, a quantitative analysis was developed in May 2022. This analysis was focused on four hundred and four (404) publications from the Scopus database, published between 2011 and May 4 2022. Before 2011 there were no publications in this area.

A bibliometric analysis was performed using the VOSviewer software and a technique of matching terms and co-authorship by authors and countries. Were found 4 clusters for the co-occurrence of terms, 18 clusters for the co-authorship of authors and 6 clusters for the co-authorship of countries. There was a lack of uniformity in the presentation of terms with the same meaning: internet of things, internet of things (iot), iot and internet of thing (iot). This lack of uniformity is probably due to the fact that it is a recent area of investigation.

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UNIAG, R&D unit funded by the FCT – Portuguese Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. UIDB/04752/2020.

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Morais, E.P., Cunha, C.R., Mendonça, V. (2022). Tourism and Internet of Things: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Production from the Scopus Database. In: Guarda, T., Portela, F., Augusto, M.F. (eds) Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability. ARTIIS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20316-9_19

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