Mapping Hospitality and Tourism Internship Research: A Bibliometric and Integrative Review

ABSTRACT

This paper applies bibliometric and integrative review approaches to examine the pattern of growth, conceptual and social structure of hospitality and tourism internship research using 167 articles retrieved from Scopus database published between 1986 and 2020. The contribution of journals, scholars, institutions, and countries in the production of hospitality and tourism internship research was assessed. Descriptive statistics of the bibliographic data was conducted using “Bibliometrix” tool whiles VOSviewer software was used for network analysis. Findings indicate that hospitality and tourism internship research is about three decades old however, the knowledge domain remains underdeveloped. Busby G, University of Queensland and the USA are the most productive author, institution and country, respectively in hospitality and internship research. Research efforts have focused on internships and students’ attitudes toward hospitality work, benefits of internships to students, industry and institutions, and internship satisfaction. There has been less international collaboration in the knowledge domain.

KEYWORDS:

• Internship
• hospitality
• tourism
• bibliometric analysis
• network analysis
• VOSviewer

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