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The purpose of the research is to determine the trend and development of Tour Operators over a 34-year period (1985-2025) in the international literature. For this purpose, the bibliometric analysis method, which is one of the quantitative research methods, has been used in the study. The data regarding the 1366 articles (as of 16.04.2025) that contain the concept of tour operator in the titles, keywords, and abstracts, were retrieved from the Scopus database. In the analysis of the data, Biblioshiny, a web interface provider application and open source software design for Bibliometrics R-package (R-Studio software), bibliometrics library, and bibliometrics have been used in accordance with certain parameters. When some of the findings that came out as a consequence of the analysis have been analyzed, it can be observed that there are 1366 articles in 559 different journals, the most of articles are multi-authored, the most articles were published in 2022, the journal that published the most articles is Tourism Management, the authors are Xavier Font, Haiyan Song, Joaquin Alegre and the affiliation is The Hong Kong Poplytechnic University. Furthermore, in the author collaboration network analysis, it has been found that 11 different clusters have been formed. When the collaboration among countries has been considered in terms of the emergence of articles on tour operator, it has been found that UK, USA, Australia and India are the ones that have the highest level of collaboration with other countries. It is thought that the results of this study are important in terms of visually mapping the development process of research on the international level and conveying it to the reader and shedding light on the studies to be conducted in the future on this subject.
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The purpose of the research is to determine the trend and development of Tour Operators over a 34-year period (1985-2025) in the international literature. For this purpose, the bibliometric analysis method, which is one of the quantitative research methods, has been used in the study. The data regarding the 1366 articles (as of 16.04.2025) that contain the concept of tour operator in the titles, keywords, and abstracts, were retrieved from the Scopus database. In the analysis of the data, Biblioshiny, a web interface provider application and open source software design for Bibliometrics R-package (R-Studio software), bibliometrics library, and bibliometrics have been used in accordance with certain parameters. When some of the findings that came out as a consequence of the analysis have been analyzed, it can be observed that there are 1366 articles in 559 different journals, the most of articles are multi-authored, the most articles were published in 2022, the journal that published the most articles is Tourism Management, the authors are Xavier Font, Haiyan Song, Joaquin Alegre and the affiliation is The Hong Kong Poplytechnic University. Furthermore, in the author collaboration network analysis, it has been found that 11 different clusters have been formed. When the collaboration among countries has been considered in terms of the emergence of articles on tour operator, it has been found that UK, USA, Australia and India are the ones that have the highest level of collaboration with other countries. It is thought that the results of this study are important in terms of visually mapping the development process of research on the international level and conveying it to the reader and shedding light on the studies to be conducted in the future on this subject.
