A systematic literature review on studies on sustainability and cultural heritage in tourism

Authors : Tarık Yalçinkaya

Pages : 165-176

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Publication Date : 2023-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Cultural heritage, as the subject of tourism activities, gives destinations a competitive advantage in terms of tourism. With the sustainability approach, they also offer solutions to certain problems in the field of tourism. For this reason, both cultural heritage and sustainability approaches are two important issues that can be associated with each other in the field of tourism. From this point of view, in this research, it is aimed to determine the current situation of the international literature on sustainability and cultural heritage and to make suggestions to guide the national studies to be carried out. In this research, the studies published with the keywords \'Sustainability\' and \'Cultural Heritage\' in the Web of Science database between 2000-2022 were analyzed using the systematic literature review method. Within the range of these criteria, it was determined that there were 109 studies and 32 of these studies were carried out in the field of tourism. The findings show that the number of studies has increased significantly since 2019, however, there are few studies based on theory. In addition, it was determined that data was collected by questionnaire, interview method, mixed quantitative data collection method. The majority of the research was published in the Sustainability journal; and half of the papers analyzed were case studies.
Keywords : Sürdürülebilirlik, Kültürel Miras, Turizm, Sistematik Literatür Taraması, Web of Science