Tourism and climate changes: Bibliometric analysis

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of the results obtained through a bibliometric Research about the relationship between tourism and climate change. This research focus on the scientific production available in the Scopus^®.  Through this digital search engine, we look for the key term (s) in the titles, abstracts and keywords of the indexed publications after creating the necessary filters for a more accurate research. This article represents a starting point in this discussion as well as an introductory study because it only resorted to scientific production base which, in the future, added to research on other bases, can display an absolutely proven picture of the relationship between "tourism and climate change" in the context of scientific production. This is an introductory study in which we only use scientific production base and after being added to research on other bases, may present a more faithful and broader picture of the relationship “Tourism and Climate Change” and the main authors in the context of scientific production. The discussion of the results presented in this article allows us to contribute to the perception of the importance of “Tourism” in its relationship with the “Climate Change” that has been acclaimed so much in the context of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) Program United Nations Environment Agency (UNEP) and the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) through the Strategic Framework for Climate Policy (QEPiC).