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ABSTRACT
In recent years, the issue of memorable tourism experience (MTE) has garnered increasing attention from scholars and tourism practitioners. This paper provides a systematic review of 52 articles on MTE listed on the SCOPUS and WOS databases from 2012 to 2020. Qualitative analysis of the literature identified nine main categories of topics in MTE-related articles. Results showed that the largest proportion of articles focused on how MTEs influenced tourists’ perceptions and behaviours and how they shaped destination marketing. Co-occurrence analysis was performed to investigate trends in the keywords used by academics over the past five years. The geographic location of studies, research methods and theories applied in these articles were also analysed. Most articles were published in the current decade and China was the geographic setting for the highest number of articles in the review. The review concludes with the theoretical and practical implications of the study as well as the directions for future research.
Acknowledgments
The research in this paper was funded by the project ‘Overtourism in Spanish coastal destinations. Tourism degrowth strategies an approach from the social dimension’ (RTI2018-094844-B-C33) financed by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (National Plan for R+D+i) the Spanish State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
‘Conceptualization, Seyedasaad Hosseini, Almeida-García, Fernando and Cortés-Macías, Rafael; methodology, Seyedasaad Hosseini; validation, Seyedasaad Hosseini, Almeida-García, Fernando and Cortés-Macías, Rafael; formal analysis, Seyedasaad Hosseini; investigation, Almeida-García, Fernando and Cortés-Macías, Rafael; writing—original draft preparation, Seyedasaad Hosseini; writing—review and editing, Seyedasaad Hosseini, Almeida-García, Fernando and Cortés-Macías, Rafael; supervision, Almeida-García Fernando and Cortés-Macías, Rafael. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Seyedasaad Hosseini
Seyedasaad Hosseini is a PhD candidate in Tourism at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Malaga, Spain. His research interest includes tourist experience, tourist behaviour and sustainable tourism.
Rafael Cortes Macias
Rafael Cortés Macías is a Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography of the University of Malaga, Spain. Among the research developed as a member of the research group “Territory and Tourism” (SEJ-402) emphasizes the study of the relationships between tourism impacts and territorial planning both within the national and international contexts.
Fernando Almeida Garcia
Fernando Almeida García is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, School of Tourism of the University of Malaga, Spain. His research focuses on tourism policy, regional planning, urbanism, sustainable development, and economic development. He is a member of the research group “Territory and Tourism” (SEJ-402).