Destination image: A co-citation analysis
International Journal of Development Research
Destination image: A co-citation analysis
Received 19th February, 2019; Received in revised form 21st March, 2019; Accepted 09th April, 2019; Published online 30th May, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Hsin Kuang Chi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Destination image concept is chosen because of the large impact of destination image on the academic research in tourism area. The purpose of this study to explore the academic foundations of destination image in tourism research. A co-citation analysis is applied to analyze most important articles that cited in the other studies. Total of 35destination image research articles cited by the leading Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals. The findings contribute to identify critical documents in tourism research, especially destination image theory. Moreover, this study provides insight into development of destination image research network in tourism industry.
